CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia. Away from modern civilization, children living in the Simien Mountains spend their gruelling days herding, or carrying, animals and walking miles through the rocky terrain. From the age of five these children are responsible for goats and sheep in the highlands and when they do rest, the boys and girls are schooled in classrooms made from mud, rocks and wood. German photographer Mario Gerth trekked 3,000 metres up the Ethiopian mountain range to visit this group of Tigray people and their hardy children and witness their unorthodox lifestyle.
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
POPE MOBBED BY THOUSANDS OF WORSHIPPERS IN RIO - Thousands of worshippers gather to celebrate the Papal visit on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro ,Brazil .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .