Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals. The jaw-dropping moment stunned spectators watching from a catamaran near Seal Island in False Bay, South Africa. The hungry shark emerged from the water and bit down on the catamaran's dummy seal, before disappearing into the waves. Yirui Heng, of Singapore, photographed the action, which lasted for just seconds.
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
From a floating jelly fish to a relaxed seal, Britain’s unappreciated beach life is captured above and below the water .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
A SERENE turquoise glow glimmers from underneath these powerful icebergs .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
With a dust covered coat hung from a wardrobe door and a pair of glasses left on a shelf, a remote farmhouse lies abandoned in the Welsh countryside .