FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public. This fashion fail could be justified if it was limited to the outdoors - because many ladies in China are particularly sensitive about shielding their faces from the sun. However, some of these women are taking face-protection too far by keeping their visors on even the sun-free INDOORS. This summer ladies across China are scaring small children by wearing what looks more like a welding mask than this season
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
THIS is the incredible moment a pelican throws a fish into the air and SLAM DUNKS it into its enormous throat sack .
A mining town in Australia’s outback appears to be completely deserted, but its residents have escaped the scorching heat by living in underground caves .
Sophie Carr, 23, from Swindon, was just six when her older brother Alex, then 12, abused her during a game of mummies and daddies .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
Pictures of John Anslow a prisoner who escaped from a prison escort van in North Worcestershire Monday, 23 January .
A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .
A 21st stone woman suffering from 'body blindness' like Dawn French shed more than half her body weight after a shock revelation brought her to her senses .
A baby who was given just a three per cent chance of survival at birth has beaten the odds to come home - even though docs told his parents to abort him 12 times .
Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .