Jason Hawkes has a special knack for aerial photography and his talents are put to especially stunning use with a collection of New York City shots. From his vantage point, sunsets in the city are even more riveting, the nightlife looks all the more exciting, and a walk in the park becomes an adventure into urban wilds.

Bride Jamie Soukup Ried, 25, died instantly as the car crashed in Asheville, North Carolina on Sunday. Her husband, 26-year-old Will Reid, was still conscious when paramedics arrived and he urged them to help Jamie first, as she was pregnant. But he also died from his injuries. 'We lost our two kids and our first grandchild,' Jamie's father Ron Soukup said. 'She had the ultrasound pictures in her purse.'

Alfredo Moser (left) says his bottle lights - which work using refraction of sunlight - illuminate a dark room like 40 and 60 watt lightbulbs.It is predicted that his lighting system, which is installed in roofs (top right), works using refraction of sunlight. It will be in over a million homes (bottom left) by the end of this year and will transform the lives of many people living in poverty.

A preliminary hearing has been delayed for Jason Dunn, 27, right, of California, until September after he pleaded not guilty to an attempted murder charge. Dunn, who appeared in court with his reattached hands in heavy bandages, is accused of stabbing his father, left, with scissors during a violent dispute back in June, and then cutting off his own hands with a power saw.

It is not known how many people were on board and how many people survived the fall, but disturbing images show bloodied men lying around the van moments afterwards. The dramatic pictures show the van being ambushed by dozens of people before crashing through a protective fence on the bridge. It then falls upside down and then rolls onto its roof as it lands. Blood can then be seen on the ground as nearby police officers pull injured men out of the crushed vehicle. At least 149 people, including Sky cameraman Mick Deane, were killed in violent clashes today and Egypt has announced a month-long state of emergency.

When the engine of their tuna vessel exploded off Oregon, owners Mark and Cynthia Schneider had no choice but to abandon ship and leave behind their two cats, a 1-year-old tabby named Jasper and a 4-year-old calico named Topaz. After being rescued by a nearby boat, they were stunned when they looked out at their sinking boat and saw Jasper on the bow and Topaz in swimming through the debris in the ocean.

The woman, dressed in red, could be seen with her Brussels Griffon hanging from a harness, and the straps slung messenger-style across her body. Her four-legged friend certainly didn't seem to mind his legs hanging free from the camo-print fabric, but it was certainly startling to see a living creature hanging from the end of her strap in lieu of a bag.

The rare images from a video shot in 2011 by a Brazilian government agency show nine members of the Kawahiva tribe walking in the nude through dense foliage armed with bows and arrows. Loggers first reported the existence of the Kawahiva in 1999. A reservation was created last year in the western state of Mato Grosso, but members of the tribe still face grave threats from loggers and farmers.

Melissa Dohme's story is a miraculous tale of survival after she lived against the odds, only to fall in love with the paramedic Cameron Hill (right) who came to save her following the horrific assault in Florida last January. Miss Dohme, 22, (also right and inset) stared down Robert Lee Burton Jr (left) in the Florida courtroom, the first time she has seen her ex since he repeatedly knifed her before leaving her to bleed to death on the sidewalk.

The lavish home sits on 3.78 acres of gated property in Merton, Wisconsin, a rural town around 20 miles from Milwaukee. It is being sold by a couple who bought the land for around $300,000 in 2001 before building the Mediterranean-style mansion in 2005. Their design aimed to keep their six children entertained, and they built an indoor basketball court, a library, an artist studio and a movie theater for the youngsters to pass away the hours. They also built plenty of perks for themselves - including an opulent kitchen, as well as an outdoor kitchen on the terrace, which overlooks the water.

Shandra Carney Fanning, right, was co-piloting the UPS cargo plane early Wednesday when it skidded across a highway and exploded in a series of fireballs on approach to Birmingham Airport in Alabama just before dawn at 4.55am. The plane was en route from Louisville, Kentucky, to Birmingham named as UPS Flight 1354,
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. There is not believed to have been any other crew members on board.

GRAPHIC WARNING: The man is then taken into the middle of a clearing where he is photographed before a gun is aimed at the back of his head and he is shot dead by a policeman. The video is filmed by one of the people stood watching the execution from a hill top.

A photograph of Bradley Manning dressed as a woman complete with wig and lipstick was released today - the same day that the troubled soldier took to the stand for the first time and apologized for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. Speaking in the court room at Fort Meade, Baltimore, Manning, 25, read from a prepared statement and began, 'First your honor, I want to start off with an apology.' I'm sorry I hurt people. I'm sorry that I hurt the US. I'm apologizing for the unexpected results of my actions,' he told the military judge, Colonel Denise Lind.

Bride Stevie Beale, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since the age of 17, has kept her vow to walk down the aisle, accompanied by her father, left, on her wedding day. The 24-year-old from Ohio attended grueling physiotherapy sessions in preparation, and credits her new husband, Jared VanAusdale, top right, for bringing her 'back to life' after a car accident severed her spinal cord.

In 1993 Loretta and Jim Healy moved cross-country and bought the houseboat where Tom Hank's character lived in the movie. Loretta and Jim Healy bought the four bedroom, 2,100 square foot houseboat that widower Sam Baldwin called home. She says: 'As we were watching the film, I poked him and said "I want to live in that houseboat".'

Creepy video shows the moment that a decapitated copperhead snake bites itself - thereby making 100 percent sure of its own death. Huntsville, Alabama resident Sam Billiter posted the unusual video to his Facebook page on Monday inviting people to watch the snakes disconcerting reaction to its own squirming headless body.

The Chelsea owner's vessel Eclipse had been the world's biggest yacht for the past three years, but it has now been usurped by Azzam which is 54ft (16.5m) longer - the length of a football field penalty area. The 590ft (180 metre) super-yacht is set to launch a new round of one-upmanship among the world's super-rich. Ownership of the craft has been shrouded in secrecy, but Yachts France, which creates the annual mega yacht league table, revealed it belongs to Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nayan, President of the United Arab Emirates and Emir of Abu Dhabi.

Elvis Presley said he wanted to help Richard Nixon save the U.S. from the hippies, the communists and The Beatles. But he had a small request. Might he, perhaps, be made some sort of undercover federal agent? Perhaps with his very own ID badge? Thanks to this letter (inset), Presley was saddled for ever with a reputation as one of rock music's great closet Right-wingers - although, as we will see, the truth may be rather different.

Katherine Papke, 35, the army sergeant mother in Anniston, Alabama, charged with the manslaughter of her four-month-old boy by leaving him in a hot car is 'devastated' - but denies she committed a crime. Sergeant First Class Katherine Papke, 35, claims she forgot to drop her son Bennett Own Smith (center) at day care after taking her two daughters, aged eight and seven to school (also pictured center with their mother)

Raymond Curtis Smith, 51, (right) a former Knox County judge executive who later served time in federal prison for fraud, shot and wounded 21-year-old Robin Smith (left) in the bedroom of her Pineville, Kentucky home just after 9.30am on Tuesday, police said. The pair had recently ended a relationship. She was airlifted to hospital but her brother and father were found dead. Raymond Smith then drove ten miles to a cemetery where his father was buried (center) and shot himself dead. Robin Smith remains in critical but stable condition.

18-year-old Kendra Gill stepped down from her position as Miss Riverton after she was arrested earlier this month for setting off homemade bombs in a Utah suburb.The teens claim it was a prank, but authorities note that the bombs had potential to 'cause a great deal of harm'

Over a century before the Hyperloop (bottom right) was a sparkle in Elon Musk's mind, a revolutionary series of high-tech pneumatic tubes shot capsules of mail around New York City - just feet below the bustling sidewalk. Launched in 1897, the system fired almost 100,000 letters a day operated by 'Rocketeers' who launched their maiden shot with a rather bemused and unimpressed passenger - a black cat.

Nasa has captured HD 189733b, an exoplanet about the size of Jupiter, eclipsing its Sun-like star. This 'hot Jupiter' is over 30 times closer to its star than Earth is to the Sun and goes around the star once every 2.2 days. The main star in HD 189733 also has a faint red companion, detected for the first time in X-rays with Chandra (inset). The main star appears to be 3 billion to 3.5 billion years younger than its companion star because it rotates faster.

Mark 'Kuhn Rippy' Brown of Gallatin, Tennessee had his raccoon Rebekah seized by the state when they found out he was keeping her as a pet. Brown is famous for posting videos on YouTube of his pet raccoons. In one of his latest videos, he was captured showering with Rebekah, left. Another video of him dancing with pet raccoon Gunshow to 'Chain of Fools' gained over 1million views. He's written to the governor, appealing to get Rebekah back.

Cooper showed off his skills in a swimming pool in Missouri. Not only could he swim, but he enjoyed diving to the bottom of the six-foot deep pool to pick up objects, it is said. He used a leg movement similar to the breaststroke 'frog kick', according to a report in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

A giant version of the 1940s photo was projected on Times Square jumbo screens for Victory over Japan Day's 67th anniversary. Also helping memorialize the momentous day was nurse Gloria Bullard who appears in the iconic photo (circled) and stood once again in Times Square on Wednesday, with WWII fighter pilot Jerry Yellin, to recreate the scene

The windows designed in California will stop the sun's warmth-carrying UV rays from getting through would keep rooms cool on a summer's day. And activating the tinted glass function would prevent nosy neighbours from peering into homes - and remove the need for screens and curtains.