A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted. Many of the buildings lie abandoned, yet are still furnished with the personal belongings of their previous owners. English photographer Cat Burton visited the eerie town of Bodie, which used to have a population of 10,000, to see a real life American ghost town. The 29-year-old, of Donington, Lincolnshire, says: “I was on a road trip around California and a few people had recommended visiting Bodie, and I’m so glad I made the time to stop here
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
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 .
Peering curiously into a basket hanging off the arms of a snowman, this little squirrel appears fascinated by the snowy figure .
