A diver explores the crystal clear waters of the Silfra canyon in southern Iceland, which is the only place on Earth where you can dive or snorkel between two continental plates. The canyon is a crack between the North American and Eurasian continents and every year these two continental plates drift about 2cm further apart. French marine biologist Mathieu Foulquie dived to 49ft and captured these images during an expedition through the freshwater Silfra canyon, located in Thingvellir Lake, Iceland. The 40-year-old, of Montpellier, France, says: “I had the privilege to dive at the famous Silfra dive site, probably the most impressive freshwater rift in Iceland.
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .
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 .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
