Amazing Events In Pictures

Running repairs for the Larkin punkphibian giant toad as artist Liz Dees attaches a new punk hairstyle after it was scalped twice in the first 48 hours on the streets of Hull

FC Bayern Munich trains during their pre-season football training camp in Riva del Garda, Italy

A man plays bowls with pins and ball made of ice during an ice bowling event in Tokyo

 

An elderly woman enjoying a morning stroll with her husband suffered a shock when she stepped onto a loose manhole cover and plunged down into the hole. Wang Lu, 87, and her husband Wang Jungcheng were taking an walk in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province, when the incident occurred. According to Jungcheng his wife stepped onto a manhole cover which suddenly moved - causing her to plummet down the hole. "I instantly caught her clothes, but she still dropped down," he said. Emergency services were called and a firefighter clambered down into the 3m deep hole in order to help Lu climb out. She was then checked over by medical staff who declared that she was fine apart from a few scratches.

A diver wears a new custom-made Shark Walker helmet allowing visitors to walk underwater, surrounded by sharks, giant stingrays and hundreds of fish, at the Melbourne Aquarium

Andy Park, aka Mr Christmas, eats his 6,000th Christmas dinner at his home in Melksham, Wiltshire. Mr Park eats a Christmas dinner every day of the year, and his home is permanently adorned with Christmas decorations

An image issued by BrewDog of their new super strength Belgium ale which will cost £500 a bottle and will be sold inside dead stuffed animals. The brewers claim that their End of History Ale is the world's strongest, at 55%

Lily Cao, aged seven, from Belfast, views a sculpture depicting the Crucifixion, which has been made from coathangers by artist David Mach, as it is displayed in Parliament Square outside St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh

Hotel worker Martina Rossi sits on James Bond's Aston Martin DB5, driven by Sean Connery in Goldfinger and Thunderball, during a photocall outside the London Hilton, Park Lane, prior to its auction by RM Auctions on October 27. The same car last visited the hotel in 1969

Visitors walk through an ice cavern in the Rhone glacier, near Belvedere, Canton of Valais, Switzerland. The glacier has lost an estimated 1,300 m in length during the last 120 years

Day breaks over a misty lavender field in Faulkland, Somerset. The image was taken by renowned landscape photographer Antony Spencer 

A woman looks up at a Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum), one of the world's largest and rare tropical flowers, at the Koishikawa Botanical Garden in Tokyo. The flower, which emits a strong odour to attract pollinators, bloomed for the first time in nearly 20 years at the Tokyo botanical garden

A tourist laughs while posing for photos inside a cage with a dinosaur sculpture at Beijing's 798 Art District