It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father. The dedicated dad takes a break from eating as he carries the eggs until they hatch, while the female continues her routine as normal. The nocturnal male cardinalfish appears to glow in the darkness as it proudly displays his brood. The stunning photographs were captured by 39-year-old photographer Marcello Di Francesco while on a trip around the Philippine Islands.
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A photographer from the United Arab Emirates travelled to Pakistan where he captured the lives of local people in a series of expressive portraits .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
WITH the phosphorescent blobs and mesmerising patterns, these spectacular images may look like the hall marks of an enchanted forest but it is in fact the scene of thousands of dancing FIREFLIES .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .