French architect Frederic Tabary poses inside the "Hamster's Villa". For 99 euros ($148) a night, guests can sleep in the 18th century caretaker's room designed to give the impression of living in a hamster's cage, complete with a 2m wheel to run in....

Canoeist paddle among thousands of plastic ducks on the River Thames at Molesey Lock, west of London. The annual charity duck race took part over a kilometre course with organisers estimating that up to a quarter of a million ducks were released, in an attempt to set a new world...