Amazing Events In Pictures

Light trails shine from a passing bus in front of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London

A Eurofighter Typhoon flies over Dubai, with the Burj Khalifa in the background, on the final day of the Dubai Airshow

A "Les Voyageurs" sculpture, part of a series of illuminated sculptures by French artist Cedric Le Borgne, is displayed along the South Bailey in Durham. "Durham Lumiere", the UK's largest light festival, brings together 35 British and international artists working with light from 17-20 November.

Stuntman Denni Duesterhoeft attempts to break the current Guinness world record as a 'human torch' in Hamburg, Germany. He ran for a distance of 120 metres, covered in flames. 

Chinese fishing boats, bound together with ropes, are escorted by a South Korean coastguard helicopter and rubber boats packed with commandoes, after alleged illegal fishing in South Korean waters

Thousands of gnats, or small biting flies, gather on a bridge over the East Lake in Wuhan, Hubei province, China

Liverpool dressmaker Thelma Madine has created a dress made entirely from human hair. The size 6 dress, which took eight people over 300 hours to complete, uses 250 metres of hair and weighs 15 stone (95kg). Eight designers from Thelma's dress shop Nico's Dressmakers, which featured on the Channel Four series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, spent 12 days making the dress. The dress with a price tag of more than £50,000 includes 1500 crystals and 12 underskirts.

A bolt of lightning strikes the sea near Pula, Croatia. Amateur photographer and full time shipbuilder, Matija Sculac, 35, did not have to travel far to catch his favourite extreme weather - these lightning shows happened on his doorstep. Matija carefully monitors local weather each day for the slightest hint of a lighting storm and when one breaks he travels to his favourite spots to capture the action.

A demonstrator stands holding a sign expressing her views behind a couple of police officers at Zuccotti Park, New York

US President Barack Obama greets Australian troops and US Marines at RAAF Base Darwin in Darwin 

A small village in Longzu village, Feixi County, Anhui province, China, has attracted international attention after a the discovery of a farmer who is a dead ringer for Vladimir Putin

Paul "Tiny" Sturgess - the world's tallest professional basketball player at 2.31cm (7ft 7.26 inches) currently playing for the Harlem Globetrotters - is measured at Guinness World Records day in Canary Wharf, London

A Thai player (in blue) kicks the ball while a Malaysian player tries to stop it during the Sepak Takraw men's team preliminary match at the 26th Southeast Asian Games in Palembang, Sumatra province

A Sri Lankan prisoner looks in a mirror before performing a traditional dance at the main Welikada prison in Colombo

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greets flood victims during her visit to flood-affected people housed in an evacuation centre in Bangkok, Thailand

A man in a makeshift raft paddles his way through a petrol station at a flooded area in Bangkok

A boy plays on a swing on a flooded street in Bangkok

A Thai supporter wears two masks during a Southeast Asian (SEA) Games Group A football match between Thailand and Singapore at Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia