WOMB STROKE SURVIVOR AMAZES DOCS BY TAKING FIRST STEPS - A little girl who suffered a catastrophic stroke in the womb which would have killed an adult has stunned the medical world by learning to walk, talk and see .

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

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .

A woman brutally beaten in a revenge attack has slammed the soft sentence handed to her assailant .

DIPPING and diving their way through this bumpy journey, these giraffe's duck for cover as they dodge multiple cables and wires .

Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .

A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .

FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .

A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .

With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .