The female beluga whale has become a sensation at Shimane aquarium, Japan after learning how to blow halo-shaped bubbles.

A toddler has been suckling milk directly from a cow ever since his mother went away to find work when a storm destroyed the family home.

The "Family Possessions" (Jia Dang) photography project was jointly produced by Huang Qingjun and Ma Hongjie. From 2005, they started shooting Chinese families and the household items they use daily.

Global aviation organization Airports Council International (ACI) has released its World Airport Traffic Report for 2010. London, Paris and Hong Kong take out the first three places in terms of international passenger traffic.

Villagers lie on a railway track for an electricity therapy in Rawa Buaya, Jakarta, Indonesia. Ignoring the red-and-white danger sign, Sri Mulyati walks slowly to the train tracks outside Indonesia's bustling capital, lies down and stretches her body across the rails.

Keiko Fukuda, 98, has unashamedly devoted her life to Judo.The San Francisco-based 'little, bitty woman' is the first female - and one of only four living judo masters - to earn the highest Judo honour: a tenth degree black belt.

Earlier this year, David Guttenfelder, chief Asia photographer for the Associated Press, along with Jean H. Lee, AP bureau chief in Seoul, were granted unprecedented access to parts of North Korea as part of the AP's efforts to expand coverage of the isolated communist nation.

The 'workers' in Bangkok's fish spas do not bite into living flesh, but eat loose bits of dead or unhealthy skin. Spa-goers in Thailand are sidestepping potential health issues to wallow in tanks filled with flesh-eating fish.

The firefighter in Ishinomaki knows his wife and daughter can't be alive this long after the earthquake and tsunami. But he will look until he finds them.

According to Reuters, celebratory divorce ceremonies have tripled since the devastating tsunami and earthquake ravaged the country in March. And in the wake of all of that tragedy, many couples took a close look at their lives and decided to move in another direction - namely, away from one another.