A lighter look

A pair of spritely otters at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York have been trained to take soda bottles to recycling bins. Don't they know if they pay peanuts they could train monkeys? Photograph: Annette Lein/AP

You missed a bit: Putin gives a little unwelcome artistic direction on a visit to Lapino clinical hospital in the Moscow region of Russia Photograph: RIA Novosti/Reuters

This is what happens when goldilocks suffers from flyaway hair. A peril for competitors at the all Scotland championships in Irish dancing in Glasgow Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Now Boris, you can't leave the table until you've eaten all your greens. The mayor tries to escape school dinners at the Reach Academy in Feltham, west London Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

Nuns on the run ... to get to St Peter's Square ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's last public audience at the Vatican Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Prince Harry's used to getting a bit of a bashing but not usually with a rolling pin. It's all in good taste though, during a cookery class at The Kananelo Centre for the Deaf in Lesotho. Photograph: Tim Rooke / Rex Features/Rex Features

David Cameron visits workers from Prysmian Cables & Systems Ltd in Eastleigh ahead of the byelection in the town, to demonstrate how to shake a martini. With vigour! Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

How many makeup artists does it take to prepare a model? The more the merrier it would seem behind the scenes at London fashion week Photograph: Stuart Wilson/Getty Images

This supporter of the former Yemeni president has taken dressing for the occasion to a whole new level during a rally marking the first anniversary of Saleh's removal from power Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

You can't teach an old Diego new tricks ... can you? Footballing legend Maradona tries his hand at tennis at the Dubai Duty Free tennis championships Photograph: Regi Varghese/AP