SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA. Children as young as four catch fish, octopus and lobsters from handmade boats off the eastern coast of Sabah, Malaysia. Along with their families, they live in wooden huts on stilts and trade their seafood for necessities with islanders in the nearby town of Semporna. Photographer Ng Choo Kia visited the Bajau people, joining them on their pirogues, which is a long narrow canoe made from a single tree trunk, and documenting their daily life in a series of pictures.
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
From vivid greens to glowing pinks, the colours of the aurora borealis fill the night sky above a snow covered Lapland .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .