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This little grasshopper found the time to pose for the camera - after spending 10 minutes biting his way through a leaf. Despite being only ten centimetres long, the ambitious insect ate its way through the leaf in no time. And he wasn't shy when he had a camera pointed at him for a picture. Vadim Trunov, from Russia, was able to get up close and take the photos in a meadow near his home in Voronezh.
Picture: Vadim Trunov/Solent News



The inaugural Red Bull Cape Fear surfing contest was held at Cape Solander in Botany Bay on Sunday in 2-3 metre waves. Reknowned as being one of the craziest and most dangerous waves in the world, Cape Solander breaks over reef only a couple of feet deep and 10 metres from barnacle covered rocks. Fourteen of the best big wave surfers from around the world were flown in for the contest including surfers from Hawaii, USA, New Zealand and Australia.
Picture: Ian Bird/REX




Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's latest creation, a 25 metre (82 feet) white rabbit, leans up against an old aircraft hangar as part of the Taoyuan Land Art Festival in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Hofman's big yellow duck drew millions of visitors as it toured the island last year and festival organizers are hoping the rabbit will do the same. The Taoyuan Land Art Festival will take place from Sept. 9-14
Picture: SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images



Former Argentinian football player Diego Maradona (R) presents a personalised Argentina jersey to Pope Francis during a meeting with organisers, players and guests of the itereligious 'match for peace' football game that will be played in Rome's Olympic Styadium
Picture: OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AFP/Getty Images



Israelis swim in an ancient water pool near the Ein Zivan settlement in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria. More than 2 million Israeli children went back to school after a summer spent by many in bomb shelters or far away from homes near the Gaza border.Picture: MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images



A green-eyed bug peeks out from behind pink flower petals in Negresti Oas, RomaniaPicture: Remus Tiplea / Barcroft Media



Burma's first international beauty queen May Myat Noe, who was the winner of 2014 Miss Asia Pacific World, poses with the $100,000 crown that she allegedly ran away with during a press conference in Rangoon. The dethroned beauty queen says she won't return the crown until the pageant's organisers apologise for calling her a liar and a thief.
Picture: AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe



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Heaviest pumpkin with their enormous 4.5ft tall pumpkin, which has a circumference of 17ft and 4in. Pictured: Ellie Benfield, 6, on the Paton's winning pumpkin.
Picture: Tom Harrison/Solent News & Photo Agency



Tate Modern's new Turbine Hall installation is a giant sculpture combining Indian fabrics, a plywood frame and American artist Richard Tuttle's memories of the Vietnam War. 'I Don't Know . The Weave of Textile Language' is intended as a statement on 'the separation of the mechanical and the human'.
Picture: Julian Simmonds/Telegraph



Belgian Artists group Laps' Construction put on a dazzling show of lights and sound at Bradford Shine festival, with sixty-three tubular stick figures lighting up the Mirror Pool.
Picture: Guzelian



Nicolas Ivanoff of France performs during the finals for the seventh stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Picture: Andreas Langreiter/Red Bull via Getty Images



Sailing boats gather at the start of the Barcolana regatta in front of Trieste harbour. The annual Barcolana regatta in the Gulf of Trieste near northern Italy is one of the largest sailing races in the world with over 1,800 participants. The race began in 1969 and takes place on the second Sunday in October.
Picture: REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini



Queen of the Carnival of Flowers smiles for the cameras as she takes part in the second day of the carnival in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The three-day festival takes place through the streets of the Hatian capital's downtown area.
Picture: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images



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Muslims gather(?) for Eid Al-Adha, Semarang, Indonesia.

Cambodia's Sleuk Rith Institute to be Zaha Hadid's first large-scale wooden project.

Once complete, the Sleuk Rith Institute will serve as headquarters for Cambodian non-governmental organization Documentation Center of Cambodia, which was created in 1995 to document the atrocities committed by the country's infamously brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

The institute will feature a 68,000 sq m (732,000 sq ft) public memorial park containing sports fields, a vegetable garden, fruit orchards, and Cambodian sculptures. It will also include a library, graduate school, a media center, an auditorium, and a research center and archive that's home to the largest archive of genocide-related documents in Southeast Asia.

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Tourists will have something more to see in addition to the Angkor Wat. The design is very elegant.

Serpentine Galleries marks the beginning of Frieze week by unveiling a specially commissioned fountain made from garden hoses by artist Bertrand Lavier at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Picture: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Serpentine Galleries



Volcanic eruptions of Mount Sinabung at Beganding village in the Karo district of North Sumatra, Indonesia
Picture: Sijori Images/Barcroft India



A flock of flamingos at Lake Nakuru in Kenya
Picture: Andrey Gudkov/Caters



A hippo about to attack a safari boat in Botswana. Looking like something from the film Jaws, the protective mother rounded on the tour when they got too close to her calf. Rob Masterton and his wife Jessica Masterton-Smith were on a safari cruise through the Chobe National Park, Botswana, when the massive mammal pounced. As part of a two-month African expedition, Jessica had spotted a baby hippo in the river and their tour guide turned the boat to take a closer look. The extremely protective mother took offence and launched herself out of the water, teeth baring, before the vessel could finally escape her jaws.
Picture: Caters



An SUV crashed through the exterior wall of a government building in Baltimore, Maryland
Picture: Barcroft Media



A green sea turtle being cleaned by yellow tang and gold-ring surgeonfish off the Kona Coast, Big Island, Hawaii
Picture: Masa Ushioda/SeaPics/Solent News



People drive amphibious vehicles in the river Mosel near Traben-Trabach, southern Germany during the Amphib 2014 rally. Fans of amphibious vehicles join the event that takes place for the 4th time from August 2 to 8
Picture: FREDRIK VON ERICHSEN/AFP/Getty Images



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t2contra said:

Cambodia's Sleuk Rith Institute to be Zaha Hadid's first large-scale wooden project.



Tourists will have something more to see in addition to the Angkor Wat. The design is very elegant.

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Wow! What an elegant and artistic structure

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A rutting stag looms out of the mist during the sunrise in Richmond Park, London
Picture: Adrian Moysey/News Dog Media



German banker and photographer Mario Gerth has been photographing sadhus, holy men in India and Nepal who live their lives away from everyday society. They cover themselves in ash and face paint and shun all home comforts for a life spent inside caves, forests and temples. Here: Bandu
Picture: Mario Gerth/HotSpot Media



A giant sculpture titled 'Pop Up' by Ervin Herve-Loranth is situated on Szechenyi Square in Budapest, Hungary.The four-day contemporary art exhibition 'Art Market Budapest' wrapped up on Oct. 12, leaving the giant sculpture in the centre of the city as a memento. The sculpture will be on display for 10 days.
Picture: Xinhua /Landov / Barcroft Media



Japanese machinery maker Kawada Industries' robot Nextage makes a cup of coffee for visitors at the Japan Robot Week exhibition in Tokyo. The Nextage uses his hands and serves coffee with sugar, cream and chocolate for the demonstration to show his skill.
Picture: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty



Stuntwoman Rowena Davies scales the outside of the Eureka Tower dressed as Catwoman at Eureka Skydeck in Melbourne, Australia.
Picture: Graham Denholm/Getty Images



Diver Montgomery Gilchrist, 38, photographed hundreds of hammerhead sharks from around 60 foot under the surface.The brave photographer said his swim off Darwin Island, in the Galapagos, during an eight day trip was his 'most exciting' yet.
Picture: Montgomery Gilchrist/Solent News



Pope Francis responds to the warm greeting by pilgrims and tourists as he arrives in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican
Picture: CLAUDIO PERIEPA



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Thousands of fireflies light up a forest in the Dasyue Mountains, Wulai, Taiwan
Picture: Mars Lin/HotSpot



The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, visiting the installation 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' which marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, at the Tower of London.
Picture: Geoff Pugh/The Telegraph



Models wait backstage during Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev, Ukraine
Picture: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich



Police in Portadown, Northern Ireland, have discovered a cannabis factory with an estimated street value of between £750,000 and £1 million
Picture: PSNI/PA



Amazing props from iconic films such as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Star Wars and Batman are due to go under the hammer in a blockbuster auction. Willy Wonka's famous golden ticket from Mel Stuart's 1971 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is up for grabs
Picture: Caters



Sand artist Ross Andrews at work on a piece entitled 'Legacy No.II' on Ramsgate beach in Kent, Andrews who grew up in Kent, uses the coast of Thanet as his canvas for artworks produced in about four hours in a race against the tides, he uses a rake and a stick to create his freestyle designs, which he says he does not plan before he starts.
Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA



This year's Campari calendar cover image features Eva Green, wearing a beautiful custom-made red gown poised against Campari's wheel of time. The wheel symbolises the key dates in Campari's rich and colourful past, where 12 of its most iconic and best-loved cocktail recipes were born. The Calendar was shot by fine art photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten, the first ever woman to get behind the lens on the Campari Calendar. The Calendar, of which only 9,999 copies are printed, will not go on sale but will be distributed to friends of Campari around the world.
Picture: Campari




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The Ariane 5 lifts-off carrying the Argentine made ARSAT-1 geostationary communications satellite, from Kourou, French Guiana. According the Argentine authorities the satellite will offer Internet, cell phone and television signals for the next 15 years for Argentina, Uruguay and Chile
Picture: AP



Shaun Pyne performs an air during the Shark Island Challenge at Shark Island off South Cronulla Point in Sydney, Australia
Picture: GETTY



Horses from the Gai Waterhouse stable Woodbine, Forever Loved, Diamond Drille, Ryker and Wandjina head out for a beach work session at Altona Beach, Australia
Picture: GETTY



Ultra-Orthodox Jewish children stand outside synagogue windows during the celebrations of Simchat Torah at Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Jews around the world rejoice during the holiday, which marks the final reading of the Torah, and the renewal of the cycle for the coming year
Picture: REUTERS



A young boy walks passed a whale which lies dead on a beach in Brazil
Picture: Imago / Barcroft Media



Staff members of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital gather outside the emergency room to show support for fellow nurse Nina Pham, in Dallas, Texas. Pham left the Dallas hospital where she was receiving treatment for the Ebola virus and being transferred by air to a National Institutes of Health Facility in Bethesda, Maryland
Picture: REUTERS



Traditionally dressed representatives from South Pacific nations push their canoes into the water as they prepare to participate in a protest aimed at ships leaving the Newcastle coal port, located north of Sydney. Around 100 protesters, which included 30 representatives of 12 South Pacific nations, formed a blockade using traditioanl canoes and kayaks to the entrance of the world's largest coal port demanding a global change to the use of coal
Picture: REUTERS




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Galapagos sea lions playing in the sea off the coast of the Galapagos Islands near a dive site called Gordon Rocks
Picture: Tracey Jennings/Solent News



A humpback whale with her calf photographed by Darren Rice in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Foa, Tonga
Picture: Darren Rice / Barcroft Media



Ten of the world's best ice climbers travelled to the Isle ofWight to compete in the Red Bull White Cliffs competition, which saw them test their skills on 115m chalk cliffs before they head out to colder climates this winter.
Picture: Jon Griffith/Red Bull



Damian Jorren of Germany walks on a slackline during a show at Shenxianju in Taizhou, China
Picture: REUTERS



A tattoo of an owl on the neck of Jharana Gurung as she poses for a picture backstage during the 'Nepal Inked - A Tattoo and Lifestyle Convention' in Kathmandu
Picture: REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar



Nearly 5000 Indian students from the Delhi Public School perform seven yogic postures, with religious prayers for world harmony and peace in Hyderabad
Picture: NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images



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