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.
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 .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
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 .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .