» Deepika padukone with Siddarth Mallya at IPL Bash

Deepika padukone with Siddarth Mallya at IPL Bash

» Launch of the Nasa Ares I-X : HQ Photos

Last week NASA launched its Ares I-X prototype vehicle, the first launch from Kennedy's pads of a vehicle other than the space shuttle since the Apollo Program's Saturn rockets were retired.

» New 9/11 photos released

A trove of aerial photographs of the collapsing World Trade Center was widely released this week, offering a rare and chilling view of the burning twin towers. The images were taken from a police helicopter, the only photographers allowed in the airspace near the skyscrapers on September 11, 2001.

» Incredible pictures of giant ice sculptures carved by sea water and polar winds

Pictured off the Western Antarctic Peninsula these colossal ice carvings have been whittled away by biting polar winds, freezing water and sub-zero temperatures.

» Free-falling: The latest incredible pictures of the artist who floats in the sky

But these people are just the latest artwork by Chinese performance artist Li Wei, who uses a combination of mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics to create his remarkable real-life montages.

» Hubble's greatest hits: Hubble space telescope images

Some of the most beautiful images captured by the Hubble telescope.