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Machete attack in Woolwich: Serving soldier killed in broad daylight

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:59:35 +0100

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A real home from home: Lui Lingchao carries house on his back everywhere he goes

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:46:21 +0100

Liu hauls around his portable home, which weighs around 60kg (Rex)

'World's rarest animals' snapped in natural habitat using camera traps

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:15:36 +0100

Giant pandas are China's national animal but are endangered. But in the mountainous giant panda reserves in the Sichuan Province other endangered animals, such as the red panda and leopard, within the protected area will also be saved (SWNS)

Ghastly gardens: Worst in show can win £1000

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:08:49 +0100

Mr Palton John, from Wembley, is in desperate need of a fix-me-up (MyBuilder)

Xbox One: An 'all-in-one' home entertainment system

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:05:52 +0100

The new Xbox One controller (R), next to the previous controller during a press event unveiling Microsoft's new Xbox One in Redmond, Washington May 21, 2013. REUTERS/Nick Adams (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENTERTAINMENT)

Chelsea Flower Show celebrates its 100th year

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:04:32 +0100

LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: Cacti are displayed on the 'Southfield Nursery' stand at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show on May 21, 2013 in London, England. The Chelsea Flower Show run by the RHS celebrates its 100th birthday this year. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

Deadly tornado in Oklahoma

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:42:52 +0100

Stripped trees and destroyed houses remain after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Richard Rowe

Deadly tornadoes destroy homes in United States

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:49:40 +0100

Storm chasers get close to the thunderstorm in South Haven, Kansas. More than two dozen tornados were spotted in parts of Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois (Reuters)

Pictures of the week: From car in a sinkhole to auto in the snow

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:06:34 +0100

Oops: The Chinese family's car tumbles into the giant sinkhole (Rex)

Nigel Farage on the campaign trail: UKIP leader calls Scotland an "ugly nation"

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:40:30 +0100

UKIP leader Nigel Farage talks with protesters in the Cannons Gait pub as he held a press conference with journalists in the pub on EdinburghÕs Royal Mile just yards from the Scottish Parliament to promote his candidate Otto Inglis in the Aberdeen Donside by-election.

Naked protesters not tickled pink by Barbie 'dreamhouse'

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:00:15 +0100

A bare-breasted FEMEN protester with an inscription on her body that reads: "Life In Plastic Is Not Fantastic" yells protest slogans while holding up a burning cross with a Barbie doll attached to it (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Prince Harry in America: Royal on week-long tour

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:33:46 +0100

(left to right) Michael Carrazza, Malcolm Borwick, Prince Harry and Marc Ganzi, lift the winners trophy following the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup, at the Greenwich Polo Club, Connecticut, USA, in which Prince Harry played in as part of his tour of the USA.

Dambusters 70th anniversary: The legendary mission

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:00:38 +0100

The Eder dam in Germany breached by the bouncing bombs during the Dambuster raid (PA)

Cold weather and flooding hits parts of UK

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:00:38 +0100

This was the snowy scene which greeted residents in Shropshire this morning. (SWNS)

Pictures of the week: From colourful devotees in India to a flying car

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:00:41 +0100

Dinner is served! This is the moment a lucky bird had an easy meal when an unlucky fish jumped out of the water. The cormorant had been paddling in wait for a meal at the El Dorado Regional Park in California. Seconds after this photo was taken he gobbled up the poor rainbow trout whole. (Dr. Andrew Lee/Solent News / Rex Features)

South Korea prepares for war: Exercise drills simulate chemical attack by North Korea

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:00:39 +0100

Smoke fills the tube station in Seoul as "victims" lie collapsed on the floor. The United States, Japan and South Korea remain on high alert in advance of a possible attack from North Korea, despite reports the country has removed a set of ballistic missiles from a launch site (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)

Genoa cargo ship tragedy: Search for survivors as control tower topples into water

Wed, 08 May 2013 07:00:14 +0100

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Bird's eye view: Jeffrey Milstein's stunning snaps of airports from above

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:11 +0100

Jeffrey Milstein has an unusual viewpoint of JFK airport, New York, from the air (Jeffrey Milstein/ Rex Features)

Britons soak up Bank Holiday Monday sun

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:00:47 +0100

Beachgoers in Woolacombe, Devon, were quick to hit the sand on Sunday (PA)

Pictures of the week: From an adorable group of animal kingdom friends to violent protests in Chile

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:00:39 +0100

Best of friends: A baby monkey, a lion cub and tiger cubs play with each other at the Guaipo Manchurian Tiger Park, China (Reuters)

Vertigo-inducing snaps of Hong Kong's towering skyscrapers

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:00:31 +0100

Skyscrapes tower over the photographer, Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze, in Hong Kong (Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze/ Rex Features)

Wildfires in California threaten thousands of homes and spread over 6,500 acres

Fri, 03 May 2013 10:00:22 +0100

Crates of pesticides and fertilizer at a strawberry farm are destroyed during a wildfire in Camarillo, California. The wind-driven fire raging northwest of Los Angeles is pushing towards the coast (Reuters)

Visions of the Universe

Thu, 02 May 2013 16:00:30 +0100

The Hubble Space Telescope was sent into space in 1990. Orbiting outside the distorting effects of the Earth’s atmosphere, it has taken the most breath-taking images of our universe. This photograph shows astronauts F. Story Musgrave (on the robotic arm) and Jeffrey Hoffman (inside the shuttle) during the first servicing mission, which repaired a flaw in the telescope’s primary mirror.

Flights of fancy: The bizarre hot air balloons shaped like Van Gogh, space shuttles and Darth Vader

Wed, 01 May 2013 16:00:35 +0100

A Thomas the Tank Engine hot air balloon, one of the imaginative creations of Cameron Balloons (Caters)

King Willem-Alexander becomes Europe's youngest monarch as Queen Beatrix abdicates Dutch throne

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:00:48 +0100

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Monster hurricane on Saturn

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:00:39 +0100

This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)

Pictures of the week: From Royal 'wizards' to a turtle escaping an alligator's jaws

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:00:30 +0100

Miep the Meishan pig stands proudly over her eight piglets (SWNS)

Ghost town at Chernobyl: Pripyat, Ukraine

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:18 +0100

A doll with a gas mask lies on the decrepit frame of a bed in a nursery in the deserted town of Pripyat. The town's 50,000 population hastily evacuated within two days of the nuclear disaster. No one has been allowed to come back - leaving the town untouched since 1986 (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

Sony World Photography Awards: Professional winners

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:00:50 +0100

Winner: 'One day in history' by Andrea Gjestvang, Norway. Pictured is Iselin Rose Borch, 15, and her dog who sleeps with her at night to help ward off the nightmares from that tragic day (Andrea Gjestvang/ Moment/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Sony World Photography Awards: Open - Enhanced

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:00:11 +0100

Winner: "Storm" by Hoang Hiep Nguyen, Vietnam (Sony World Photography Awards/ Hoang Hiep Nguyen)

Sony World Photography Awards: Professional - Current Affairs

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:00:58 +0100

Winner: 'Personality and society. Reality vs illusions' by Ilya Pitalev, Russian Federation. North Korean soldiers stand next to civilians at the Kim Il Sung Stadium during celebrations of the centennial birthday of the founder of their state, Kim Il Sung (Ilya Pitalev/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Sony World Photography Awards: Professional - Campaign

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:00:16 +0100

Winner: 'Jim Rickey' by Christian Aslund, Sweden. The images were shot in Hong Kong for the shoe brand Jim Rickey. The photographer had to shoot from skyscrapers toward the ground and used a telephoto lens to make the image look as flat at possible (Christian Aslund/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Sony World Photography Awards: Professional - Arts and Culture

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:00:47 +0100

Winner: 'The Limousine' by Myriam Meloni, Italy. She said: "A luxury emblem used to transport politicians and rock stars in the '80s, nowadays the limousine turned into an icon of the Argentinean popular culture. Brides in their white dresses, starlets television, fifteen years old celebrating their birthdays, and future husbands: they all share the same sensation of sitting one night on an electric blue Ford Fairlane from 1972." (Myriam Meloni/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Sony World Photography Awards: Professional - Landscape

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:00:41 +0100

'A portrait of the Matterhorn' by Nened Saljic, Croatia. He said: "When I was young, I had long fantasized about climbing the Matterhorn but I never really had the chance. The Matterhorn was the last great Alpine peak to be conquered and its first ascent in 1865 marked the end of the golden age of alpinism. Its North Face, which is on all images, is amongst the "Three Great Problems" in the Alps and was not climbed until 1931." (Nenad Saljic, Croatia, Professional Landscape, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards)

Sony World Photography Awards: Student Focus Photographer of the Year

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:00:47 +0100

'The Protagonists' by Natalia Wiernik, Poland. Photographers were asked to submit a collection of images based on the brief 'Family'. She explained her process behind the snaps: “The notion of family escapes the limitations of one simple definition. More and more frequently, relations are formed not on the basis of blood ties but based on similarities.” (Natalia Wiernik/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Sony World Photography Awards: Professional - Travel

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:00:22 +0100

Winner: 'Journey to Jerusalem of Africa-Lalibela, Ethiopia' by Gali Tibbon, Israel. Every year just before Christmas day (Julian calendar) thousands of pious Christian Orthodox worshippers make a pilgrimage to Lalibela, a small town in Ethiopia's highlands, known as Jerusalem of Africa or Black Jerusalem. Lalibela is famous for its 13th century monolithic churches, carved out of the living rock and one of the world's great wonders. (Gali Tibbon/ Sony World Photography Awards)

Sony World Photography Awards: Professional - Still Life

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:00:26 +0100

Winner: 'Migrant' by Vanessa Colareta, Peru. She said: "'Migrant' uses still life to talk about a current event: the migration of women in Spain. This work is inspired by the symbolism of the still life of Spanish Golden Age to photographically represent hybrid social processes such as globalization and migration." (Vanessa Colareta/ Sony World Photography Awards)