FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature. The series of extraordinary images were taken by German software engineer Thorsten Scheuermann after he decided to examine his surroundings. A trip to the city of Kalapana in Hawaii, home to the Kilauea Volcano, provided Thorsten with the setting for his lava picture, while a visit to the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon offered him the opportunity to photograph ice bubbles up-close. The 37-year-old, now of Washington, USA, said: 'These are sights that can gain greater significance and have their beauty exposed when excluding everything else around them.'
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
FEAST your eyes on the £500K coin-covered Range Rover that could be the world’s most blinged-out car .
WENDY Randall, 16, from Kent is now training to be a bodybuilder after recovering from anorexia .
A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .
A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her .