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.
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
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THE CRAZE for mimicking the video game Streetfighter has spread to the streets of London .
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Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
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Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .