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

A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .

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

With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .

SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .

A young makeup artist has hit back at vile internet trolls who dubbed her a 'swamp creature' and 'ugly' for exposing her troubled skin in online makeup tutorials .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

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

A group of shelter dogs showcase their loveable personalities in a series of passport-style photographs - in the hope of finding their forever homes .

BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .

Marina Afonina, now 51, from Northampton, met Ioan Budea in 2006 .

A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates .