A New York City artist has turned his neighbors across the street into subjects for his latest exhibit.
Arne Svenson pointed his camera at the floor-to-ceiling windows of a luxury building in the city's Tribeca neighborhood from his second-floor apartment across the street. The images show residents doing mundane things like napping, cleaning and putting children to bed.
Even though the photos don't reveal faces, not all residents are happy knowing they've become subjects for an artist while in the privacy of their own homes.
Neighbour Michelle Sylvester says Svenson crossed a line by photographing the building's dwellers without their knowledge.
Svenson says his neighbors were performing "on a stage of their own creation with the curtain raised."
The photos are on sale for up to $7,500 at Manhattan gallery.(AP)
Australian MP bopped on the hop by kangaroo
An Australian politician was left hopping after he was attacked by a kangaroo while on a morning jog in the national capital Canberra.
"Mugged by a kangaroo!," declared Shane Rattenbury, Australian Capital Territory municipal services minister, on Twitter.
Rattenbury was left with deep scratches and bruising on his leg after the encounter with the bounding marsupial on Thursday morning.
"I'm not sure who got the bigger shock, me or the kangaroo," he told the ABC.
"He was minding his own business eating some grass, I was minding my own business running.
"Unfortunately the kangaroo jumped up, as they do when they're a bit startled, and took a defensive pose and unfortunately I came out of it second best with some decent cuts down the back of my leg."
Rattenbury had his wounds cleaned and was given a tetanus shot.
He later joked on Twitter: "I believe the roo is fine -- escaped the scene quickly, but did fail to get my watch or wallet for those who were wondering." (AFP)