The Owl and the Pussycat who really are the best of friends

It's a scene that would make Edward Lear proud.
This owl and pussycat really have become the best of friends - and they've attracted almost half a million fans thanks to their YouTube video.
The amazing footage shows Fum the cat and Gebra the barn owl playing together in the open countryside.
Scroll down to see the amazing video footage

The Beard-A-Reno Contestants

The winning whiskers on the Central Coast were named during the 52nd Annual Beard-A-Reno on Saturday night at the Santa Maria Elks Lodge.
More than 30 contestants competed for bragging rights — and a custom-made silver belt buckle — at the event.
Honors were given for wildest, blackest, reddest, longest and whitest beards, along with most original and best mustache, goatee, sideburns, attempt, western characterization and all around. Miss Wrangler also was named.
Since February, contestants have foregone their razors in the attempt to grow the top entries.
This year’s event was held in memory of Ted Scott, the longtime Elks historian who died in December.
The Beard-A-Reno is one of the events leading up to the annual Santa Maria Elks Rodeo, set for June 2 through 5. The rodeo parade is planned for Saturday morning, June 4.

Capuchin catacombs of Palermo

The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo (also Catacombe dei Cappuccini or Catacombs of the Capuchins) are burial catacombs in Palermo, Sicily, southern Italy. Today they provide a somewhat macabre tourist attraction as well as an extraordinary historical record.

Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently-dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs.

Underworld of Tokyo

Beautiful pictures of underground world of Tokyo.

Nosed Snake Boulanger

These strange-looking reptile known to science as big noses snakes Boulanger (Latin Rhynchophis boulengeri), but in the entire history of its existence, they managed to get a lot of other names. The most popular of them - the snake-green rhino and the unicorn.