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.They feature over 100,000 people in the performing art displays that include tens of thousands of gymnasts synchronizing movements in line with a background of card-turners who entertain spectators. About 20,000 of them form the background to the show holding large books whose pages flip simultaneously to produce the huge displays.The rapid change of images sees one card exchanged for another in a swift and synchronized movement that takes hours of rehearsals and detailed choreography.Photographer Werner Kranwetvogel, 40, captured the stunning shots after he gained rare access to the communist country's public displays.
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
An American woman whose skin turned silver after using nose drops is warning people of the dangers of medicines containing the metal .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
A coroner stunned an inquest into a honeymooner who died abroad today by asking her husband if he was involved in her drugs death .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
LIKE SUPERMAN carrying a slimy Lois Lane through the air this frog is treating its mate to a flying lesson .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .