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.
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
Is your cat bored? Do his usual playthings simply not do it for him anymore? Not to worry - there's an app for that .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
A couple celebrated tying the knot with a spectacular Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding reception .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .