FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns. These fascinating photographs were captured by amateur photographer Zhang Ning, 51, in awe of her native country's beauty after trips across China. 'I am very lucky that my country China is so diverse and large,” explains Zhang Ning, from Dongguan, Guangdong, China. 'It can provide me with numerous opportunities to shoot different landscapes, cultures, traditions.
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
