SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive. Equipped with a bird, gas lamp and net, he fishes without the aid of a rod by using an unusual method - first practiced in 960 AD. The fisherman, pictured in southern China, releases a cormorant bird which dives into the water and retrieves a carp, before returning to the fisherman’s reed raft. The stunning images of cormorant fishing were captured on the River Li in Guilin, China by Russian photographer Viktoriia Rogotneva when he visited the fishermen of Guilin.
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
ARM extended and head flung back, this little chipmunk performs a loose-limbed yoga move .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .