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

NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .

A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .

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

PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .

A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .

An American man continues on his mission to document his journey around the globe by completing a world map tattoo on his back .

With no luck at the front of the bus, the deer runs around the center seats trying to escape through the window – THIS is the astonishing moment a DEER crashed through the front windshield of a bus before it went hysterically running around the vehicle .

With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .