A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .

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

GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .

PEACE and love filled the 1980’s Glastonbury fields as relaxed festival goers kicked back and soaked up the atmosphere .

Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .

A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .

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 .

WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .

WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .

A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .

With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .

A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .