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.
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
WONDERS of the world have been transformed into their mini-versions in a seven-year round the world adventure .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
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AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .