SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .

A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .

The view from this rooftop pool is sure to make most holidaymakers envious .

A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .

A woman who suffered from an allergic reaction to hair dye that made her face swell to twice its size has been left too scared to leave the house .

A schoolboy is the envy of his friends due to a one in 14-million condition which means he can only eat FRY-UPS to survive .

An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .

A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .

GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .

A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .

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 .

Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .