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.
A lazy otter finds the ideal spot to soak up the sun and sleep off his lunch .
WHETHER FLOATING through space or diving underwater, a lucky baby boy enjoys once in a life time experiences - in his DREAMS .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
A photographer has captured stunning photographs of the Milky Way above picturesque landscapes in the UK and Italy .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
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 .
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 .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .