SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia. The dolphins swim into shallow waters, just three metres from the beach, and eat fish from the hands of locals. The eye-opening encounter was captured by 47-year-old lawyer and photographer Andrea Izzotti at Monkey Mia beach, a popular tourist destination on the west coast of Australia.
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
ESCAPING A LANDFILL FUTURE, these amazing science fiction inspired sculptures are made from everyday objects .
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .