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.
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
THIS incredible shimmer of silver fish mirrors the image of that of an underwater tornado .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .