FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public. This fashion fail could be justified if it was limited to the outdoors - because many ladies in China are particularly sensitive about shielding their faces from the sun. However, some of these women are taking face-protection too far by keeping their visors on even the sun-free INDOORS. This summer ladies across China are scaring small children by wearing what looks more like a welding mask than this season
SOARING through the air, this is the moment a hungry tawny owl arrives home with dinner .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .