These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .

N evil mugger who battered a Birmingham old soldier and fled with just £40 has been jailed for nine years .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

A floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .

A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .

A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .

COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .

WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .

A transgender model, who has spent £180k on surgery to become a ‘desirable’ woman, has told of her struggle to find a man who is openly accepting of trans-women .