David Guttenfelder a veteran photojournalist became one of the very first foreign photogs to be allowed to take pictures in North Korea and so we get to see the rare insight of this isolated country.
A Chinese Zheng Chunhui got his place in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's longest wooden craving. His masterpiece is 40 feet long and it's made from a single tree trunk.
Speculating about future is is most of the time futile, let alone about the distant 100,000 years kind of future. But we can always guess and if there is science involved we even might be onto something.
You certainly don't see these kind of images every day, from tick close up, x-ray of a bat, to a high-tech micrograph of a zebrafish embryo. Check out some of the best images of the year.
