ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS. The diver fearlessly swims with grey reef sharks, blacktip reef sharks and whitetip reef sharks off the coast of Yap in the western Pacific Ocean. American ocean photojournalist Tim Rock captured the breath-taking photographs on a diving trip with professional dive tour instructor and model Yoko Higashide. The 64-year-old photographer, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, said: “Vertigo Reef, along the north-western shores of the island of Yap in Micronesia, is a perfect venue to watch reef sharks.
IN a galaxy far, far away, this collection of stunning interstellar formations will leave you STARSTRUCK .
TENNIS was a game made for three according to the first Victorian rule book .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
DIVING down at a speed of 75mph, this is the moment a hungry osprey caught his prey .
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 .
