Mexican collector Pablo Perez, holds up a Star Wars R2-D2 toy while he displays a toy collection of Star Wars characters and items at his home in Monterrey, Mexico December 12, 2015. Perez has collected more than 3,000 toys and items from the Star Wars movie series over 10 years, local media reported. (Photo by Daniel Becerril/Reuters)

Cooked and coloured eggs travel along the production line at the Schrall coloured eggs company in the Austrian Village of Diendorf March 16, 2015. Schrall is one of Austria's biggest Easter and coloured eggs producers and makes between eight and 10 million coloured eggs throughout year. (Photo by Leonhard Foeger/Reuters)

Two men help each other cross a street covered in deep mud in Copiapo, Chile, Thursday, March 26, 2015. Unusually heavy thunder storms and torrential rains that began on Tuesday have blocked roads, caused power outages and affected some 600 people on this normally dry region. (Photo by Aton Chile/Marcelo Hernandez/AP Photo)

Festival-goers wash on Shipyard Island, the venue of the 24th Sziget (Island) Festival in Northern Budapest, Hungary, 15 August 2016. The venue, one of the biggest cultural events of Europe, offers art exhibitions, theatrical and circus performances and above all music concerts from 10 to 17 August. (Photo by Szabó Gábor/Origo.hu)

Meet Rupert the whippet who loves nothing better than dressing up and posing for the camera. Whether playing a game of tennis, reading the morning newspaper or even doing the ironing, these hilarious pictures show the dog has a real knack for striking a fetching pose. Rupert began starring in the snaps at 10-months-old, when his owner Janet Burton, 56, noticed him standing with his front legs rested on the lawnmower.

Here are the bravest of the brave in 2016. Weve gathered some of the finest images showing daredevils taking their lives into their own hands and going to the very brink this year. Whether they are perched hundreds of feet up on a high wire, courageously clinging to a rockface or taking on a volcano, these adventurers take the breath away. Here: Morgane Choquet and Samuel Cobb relax in a vertical campsite on the slopes of El Capitan, Yosemite National Park. (Photo by Alexandre Eggermont/Caters News)

Natalia Grossman of the United States competes in the women's boulder lead climbing final at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile, Tuesday, October 24, 2023. Six new venues were built for 30 sporting events, an investment of $507 million. (Photo by Esteban Felix/AP Photo)

Jan Kara (R) and Jan Holan pedal their boat, made with plastic bottles, on the Elbe river near Kostelec nad Labem July 15, 2014. Jan Kara, a 22-year-old student, and Jakub Bures, a 22-year-old car mechanic, built the 10-metre (32.8-feet) long boat from 5000 plastic bottles strapped to a wooden frame. (Photo by David W. Cerny/Reuters)