FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .

A proud stag attempts to impress the females by donning an enormous fern headdress in London's Bushy Park .

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

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

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

INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .

An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .

A woman was left fighting for her life after an eczema wound became infected and caused a deadly flesh-eating bug to ravish a hole in her arm .

Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - EVANDER HOLYFIELD VISITS SICK KIDS: Evander Holyfield in Birmingham children's hospital, where he was giving presents to sick kids .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .