A little caterpillar fearlessly scampers down a branch and confronts a praying mantis. As the green praying mantis lifts its body and prepares for battles, the amber bug simply stares into the face of the much larger rival. Photographer Monica Anantyowati captured the tense staredown in a garden close to her home in Malang, Indonesia.
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
A soap bubble lands on the frosty ground and creates a shimmering snow globe as crystals form around it .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
SPARKLING bright inside their box, it’s hard to believe these diamonds are made from the cremated remains of the deceased .
