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Fiona Bruce's £400,000 hunch: Spots that £400 painting is really a Van Dyck It was identified after a hunch by the show's presenter when the owner of the work took it along to be valued at Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire.

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It was identified after a hunch by the show's presenter when the owner of the work took it along to be valued at Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire.

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Fiona Bruce's £400,000 hunch: Antiques Roadshow star spots that £400 painting is really a Van Dyck worth a thousand times as much
He's back... honestly! Chinese camouflage artist returns with latest work disguising himself among everyday objects (if you can spot him)
Incredible pictures taken just one metre away from erupting volcano by photographer who was forced to flee to avoid being hit by lava
Rural bliss... or despairing desolation? Photographer captures the beautiful vastness of farmlands across America's north-west
Are these the most life-like sculptures ever produced? Artist creates hyper-realistic models of humans
No height restriction on THIS ride: Amazing bird's-eye views of Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld... from a helicopter
Mesmerizing pictures of cave formations reveal a hole new world beneath our feet from New Mexico to Vietnam

He's back... honestly! Chinese camouflage artist returns with latest work disguising himself among everyday objects

It is the latest series of camouflage trickery unveiled by artist Liu Bolin, or 'the invisible man', who made his name blending into the background of everyday scenes. Claiming they are a comment on his role in society, the Beijing-based painter, photographer and sculptor goes through swathes of clothes as he smears them in paint to blend into road signs (top left), toy shelves (bottom left), an open square (bottom right), and a rack of Chinese lanterns. ...read

Incredible pictures taken just a yard from erupting volcano by photographer who was forced to flee to avoid being hit by lava

But one intrepid photographer has trekked right up to a molten lava spewing crater in search of the perfect shot. Miles Morgan was just one metre away from the source of the eruptions when he took some of these incredible images of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii. ...read

The original paparazzo: Exhibition by legendary society photographer Richard Young captures unexpected celebrity moments

Richard Young, Kate Moss Backstage, London, 1993.jpg

It's been forty years since society photographer Richard Young first got his major break. Since then, he's snapped photos of the most famous stars in the celebrity pantheon. Pictured are Johnny Depp and Kate Moss smoking, and Elizabeth Taylor kissing Richard Burton. One of the most important photographers of the twentieth-century according to The Times, Young's diverse portfolio includes Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales, Joan Collins, Kate Moss, Andy Warhol, Marvin Gaye, Mick Jagger and Stevie Wonder, to name just a few. ...read

Are these the most life-like sculptures ever produced? Artist creates hyper-realistic models of humans

London-based sculptor Ron Mueck, formerly a model maker and puppeteer for children's television and films, has been creating fine art sculptures since 1996.

From an Eskimo kiss to a boy sleeping on his doting grandmother: Evocative images that capture love in their own unique way

'Love is black and white': This silhouetted kiss is among the images entered into a photography competition asking the nation to capture what love means to them.

A photography competition run by relationship site eHarmony is challenging the nation to take the picture that best captures what the emotion means to them.

Artist trades paintbrush for typewriter to create 200-foot-long illustration made from layers of overlapping letters

Artist Pablo Gamboa Santos developed a series of 300 drawings, titled Qwerty, out of hundreds of thousands of individual letters.

Would you wait eight hours to take a selfie? Thousands line up to snap envy-inducing photograph in New York gallery's Infinity Mirrored Room

Only one person at a time is permitted into Yayoi Kusama's latest exhibition's mirror-lined room, hung with colored LED bulbs, called Infinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away

Yayoi Kusama's latest exhibition, I Who Have Arrived in Heaven, is showing until December 21 at the David Zwirner Gallery in Chelsea.

That's a mammoth origami project! Artist plans to fold 15m by 15m sheet of paper into life-size elephant

Lucerne-based Sipho Mabona plans to create and exhibit his monumental art work inside the Art Museum in Beromünster, Switzerland, pictured

Over more than a month, Swiss-based Sipho Mabona, 33, has painstakingly planned the intricate pattern, which details where exactly, and in what order, to fold the paper.

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Amazing bird's-eye views of Disney World, Universal Studios and SeaWorld... from a helicopter

Jason Hawkes's latest aerial project sees him photograph theme parks in Orlando, Florida, from several hundred feet up in the sky.

Mesmerizing pictures of cave formations reveal a hole new world beneath our feet from New Mexico to Vietnam

The incredible pictures show the natural stalagmites and stalactites within some of the world's deepest caves and they were taken by keen caver Dave Bunnell, 61, from Delaware.

North Korea photojournalist named 'Instagram photographer of the year'

Time has awarded it's Instagram photographer of the year to veteran Associated Press chief Asia photojournalist David Guttenfelder, thanks in large part to his fascinating depictions of life behind North Korea's Bamboo Curtain. Guttenfelder's unique post allows him the world's most intimate access to the rogue state, where despite being forever under the watchful eye of a government minder, he's managed to produce gorgeous, haunting visual documents.

The rise of Surburbia: Photographer examines the uniformity of the world’s suburbs and the eerie rise of the model home which comes with everything prepared down to food in cupboards

Egyption Gold: A decadent home in Mivida in Cairo, Egypt has a view of the tall buildings in the distance

Photographer Martin Adolfsson's photography project, 'Suburbia Gone Wild' documents suburban homes outside of the world's developing economic epicenters.

Photographer captures intricate patterns of ice in bubbles in their first moments after they start freezing

These stunning photos - taken by photographer Angela Kelly in Washington, US - capture the beauty of liquid droplets in their first moments after they start freezing.