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.
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
A chipmunk, with his cheeks full to bursting, has no intention of leaving with an empty stomach .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .