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 Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
STAIRWAY obsessed photographers have captured psychedelic shots that will mesmerise you .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
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 .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
FLYING through the air, these delighted pooches pull their best poses mid-flight .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .