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.
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
FROM the rolling hills of the Scottish highlands to looming chalk cliffs in Sussex, these stunning photographs capture the spectacular beauty of Great Britain .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
