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 floating market in Indonesia is bursting with vibrant colours as wooden rowing boats loaded with fruit and vegetables crowd the river .
Standing on the edge of a never-ending black hole, this is one leap you wouldn't want to make .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A woman has told how her addiction to eating bath bubbles during her pregnancy was better than SEX .
An American woman whose skin turned silver after using nose drops is warning people of the dangers of medicines containing the metal .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - FUNKY BUMP: FROM MIRROR bellies to rainbow bumps these pregnancy casts of stone and bronze could be the funkiest way to preserve your bump for posterity .
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 .
The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .
A woman has released pictures of the horrific injuries she suffered when her jealous ex attacked her with a brick .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .