A trio of ants are locked in a tug of war over a fly as they pull the bug by its legs. The feisty ants, all desperately trying to keep hold of their dinner, are eventually joined by a small colony of weaver ants as they all bid to take the prize home. The struggle over the horse fly was photographed in Tiruvalla, Kerala, India in the back garden of Sreekumar Mahadevan Pillai. The 39-year-old Indian neurosurgeon says: “There is a huge teak tree leaning over my terrace which hosts millions of weaver ants.
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
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 .
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A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
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These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
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A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .