WITHOUT A care in the world, this little snow monkey puts his feet up and settles in for a snooze. Bathing in the hot springs, he looks right at home as he indulges in a bit of me time. This calm monkey was captured by Edinburgh photographer Chris Rush, 26, while visiting the Jigokudani Monkey Park in Japan. “These photographs capture one of the most beautiful creatures I have ever encountered,” says Chris, originally of Newcastle.
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This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
A baby sperm whale assumed the role of a friendly giant when faced with two awestruck divers .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
BEHIND the doors of this building, with its stacks of mattresses and discarded remains of wheelchairs, lies another victim of austerity cuts .
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SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .