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.
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
NEVER mind being careful not to choke on your food, this mother bird has a bigger challenge on her hands, as her ravenous offspring impatiently launches its head down into her stomach .
A cricket perches on an unusual seat after crawling up the snout of a crocodile .
A kingfisher’s bright blue and orange feathers glisten in the sunlight as the bird dives into a lake .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
This starling and prairie dog will not back down an inch as they have a fearsome stand-off over who gets to eat a nut .
Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .