A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The magnificent mammals swim up to several boats full of tourists and get so close that the passengers can stroke the mother and baby whale. The special moment was photographed by lawyer Andrea Izzotti, 47, of Genovia, Italy. Andrea says: “The mother was milking her calf in shallow waters, but they are very curious animals and they came up to our boats to see the humans.
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
