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.
An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .
THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .
Pinning a purple flower into her bleach blonde hair, pretty Ava admired herself in the mirror .
A mum-of-two has revealed how her childhood friend of 20 years attacked her with a cosh and broke her nose in a vicious attack .
Sarah Gould, before weight loss Mum told "get down the gym fatty" -A 20 stone woman who was told "get down the gym fatty" on a night out has shed a third of her weight in time for her dream wedding .
WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .