Amazing Events in Pictures

At first glance, this may look like a landscape painted on canvas. But on closer inspection, the rolling green hills are actually painted onto a woman's body. Craig Tracy spent hours painstakingly painting the woman's curves to create the optical illusion.



Daredevil Joe Egan launches himself from a dive platform 80 feet in the air in the Sinbad International High Dive Show. at the Sydney Royal Easter Show



US Air Force cadets with the Wings of Blue Parachute Demonstration Team form up while attempting to break the largest formation collegiate record, with a 46-person formation above Gila Bend, Arizona



Photographer Claudio Gazzaroli visited the Ticino Verzasca River in Switzerland, where he came across this arched bridge, known as Roman Bridge. He decided to jump into the crystal clear water with his camera to capture this novel perspective on a well-known tourist site.



The moon is seen behind the St Peter and St Paul Cathedral in St Petersburg, Russia



The sun is reflected from the top of the 105-floor Ryugyong Hotel, which remains under construction, in Pyongyang, North Korea



A young boy dressed in traditional costume yawns as he and others are carried to be ordained during the Poy Sang Long festival at a Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand



A member of the Philadelphia 76ers flight squad dunks between periods of a game against the Toronto Raptors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



Italian cyclist Matteo Trentin reacts after he fell during the 100th edition of the Scheldeprijs, a 202km race in Schoten, Belgium



Swedish golfer Henrik Stenson's son Karl watches as his father gets a ball from his caddie Oliver O'Reilly during the par three competition at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta



Bystanders watch as a Thai policeman talks to Sakdawut Hamsiri, 30, who holds a knife against his wife Thawee Naiyanit on a street in Bangkok. The six-hour knifepoint hostage situation ended when the police used a Taser and took him to the police station.