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.
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A BEAUTIFUL sight for the eyes and the imagination, these liquid sculptures take shape in many different colours and formations .
A unique business in Birkenhead, Merseyside is sure to leave you HALF-CUT with its unusual pub and barbers combination .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .