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 .

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 .

FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .

FOR most people, spending a night locked up in a cell would be undesirable .

FLAMINGOS from above look like the pink algae they eat .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

FOR TWO memory-impaired parents their new-born baby Cian is a living timekeeper .

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

Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .

A Kermit the Frog toy made famous by travelling the world is still globehopping, having racked up an incredible 420,000 kilometres to some of the world's furthest flung places .

A woman has been left unable to smile after undergoing emergency surgery to remove infected lip fillers .

These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .