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.
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .
AT first glance these images could easily be mistaken for photographs, but they are in-fact real life drawings created using nothing but coloured pencils .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
BEAUTIFULLY lit by the dim glow of lanterns, a cave in Iceland is transformed into the perfect wedding venue .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .