NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .

A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .

A woman has lost an incredible 13st after a group of men cruelly threw a kebab at her as she walked down the street .

A fish almost escapes the beak of a bird as they both soar through the air .

STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .

An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .

IT'S the iconic TV show that influenced a whole generation in the 1990s .

THIS BIGFOOT 'Jesus bird' may look silly, but he's perfectly designed for walking on water .

A teenage girl nicknamed 'spotty dog' by school bullies has embraced the hundreds of birthmarks that cover her entire face and body .

High up in the mountains and thousands of feet off the ground, a party of climbers were in for a shock as they came face to face with this frightening leap of faith .

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

These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create .