These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .

Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .

A woman has shed half her body weight after undergoing a gastric sleeve op to shrink her stomach .

ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .

SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .

DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .

The San Antonio Zoo in Texas has welcomed a bizarre new addition - a two-headed turtle named Thelma and Louise .

NATURE PAPARAZZIS prove you don't have to be Justin Bieber or Cheryl Cole to attract a pack of photographers .

AN Irish woman has become the first adult in the world to receive a revolutionary REMOTE CONTROLLED 'ROBO SPINE', which uses magnets to combat the effects of scoliosis .

TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .