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.
AN OLD ENGLISH cottage packed full of history and valuables has been left to rot .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .
A diving guide leaves a shark completely docile and balanced in the palm of his hand .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
A dog was SOW close to death after she dangerously swallowed a two-inch NEEDLE-Cute Shih Tzu Daisy could have pierced her intestines after eating the long needle and thread after finding it on the carpet .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .