The smallest tribute yet has been paid to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding – miniature Lego figures depicting the happy couple.
The bride and groom, Queen and Duke of Edinburgh and even corgis, the monarch’s favourite breed of dogs, are recreated in tiny detail at the new attraction.
The royal wedding scene also includes crowds, guests and members of the royal family on Buckingham Palace’s balcony. (PA)
Prosthetic dogs
A group of “miracle dogs” which have been revitalised by prosthetic limbs took centre stage at the launch of the British Small Animal Veterinary Association’s annual congress.
Among the animals showing off the benefits of artificial limbs at the four-day meeting in Birmingham was a four-year-old German shepherd with a prosthetic foot and a Jack Russell which lost a leg in a car accident.
Around 8,000 delegates and 220 exhibitors are expected to attend the congress in central Birmingham, with an estimated £15 million being pumped into the local economy. (PA)
Message in bottle
A 13-year-old Russian boy has found a message in a bottle and was reunited with its German author, who wrote the note 24 years ago.
Daniil Korotkikh found the beer bottle earlier this month on the beach near Kaliningrad. His father translated the note inside, which was dated September 7, 1987. The letter was signed by five-year-old Frank Uesbeck, who enclosed his address in Coesfeld in western Germany.
Russian journalists tracked down Mr Uesbeck, now 29, a married bank worker, who said he barely remembered sending the bottle with the note, which was written by his father and he signed in shaky letters. His parents still live at the same address and his father showed a photograph of Frank holding the bottle, which they threw into the sea while travelling to Denmark.
Mr Korotkikh and Mr Uesbeck were shown speaking via a video link and the Russian schoolboy showed off the letter, which he has framed. (AFP)
Stop, thief!
A boy of 12 and his 10-year-old sister chased after a woman who snatched their mother’s handbag in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Angel and Carina Baldwin followed the woman into the toilet of a nearby store, where she dropped the bag and ran off.
Police caught up with her shortly afterwards. (PA)
Trunk packed
A performing elephant which suffered appalling abuse at the hands of her groom will say goodbye to the circus and start a new life at Longleat Safari Park.
The elderly elephant, named Anne, will pack her trunk in the coming days after bosses at the Bobby Roberts Super Circus agreed she could be rehomed.
The move to the Wiltshire park comes after secretly filmed video footage showing the Asian elephant being kicked, struck with a metal pitchfork and shackled by heavy chains was beamed around the world, sparking public outcry. (PA)
Fickle flames
Firefighters responding to a brush fire in Connecticut watched one of their trucks go up in flames.
Fire Marshal Stanley MacMillan said the pumper truck had a mechanical problem and stalled. The wind picked up, the fire spread, and soon the truck was ablaze.The vehicle and equipment on board were a total loss.The original blaze, sparked by a large grass mower, was brought under control and no one was hurt. (PA)
Angry Birds
A cartoon video which recounts the unrest in the Middle East using the characters in the popular Angry Birds game and the children’s story Three Little Pigs is racking up the views on YouTube.
In the video, the egg-stealing green pigs in the original Angry Birds game from Finland’s Rovio portray Tunisia’s deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt’s ousted leader Hosni Mubarak and Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
The Angry Birds first take out Mr Ben Ali in his house of straw before moving on to topple Mr Mubarak in a house made to resemble an Egyptian pyramid.
Col Gaddafi proves a harder nut to crack in his house of stones and survives several barrages of birds before he is finally crushed by a “mighty eagle” in the colours of the US. (AFP)