WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state. Instead of using traffic lights to control the stop and go flow of the cross-roads, attractive women dressed in perfectly crisps and identical outfits dangerously stand along in the middle of the road on a small platform. Displaying riveting focus, they are only allowed to turn counter-clockwise, directing traffic with forceful and halting movements. They have been the subject of photographic study for many years but French photographer Eric Lafforgue, 49, captured these moments during six trips to the Marxist country.
VIBRANT bursts of colour fill the screen as beautiful flowers blossom in these time-lapse videos .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
These are the faces of orphans suffering from the horrifying effects of chemical warfare .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
MEET the underwater British seal who is so friendly he loves to grapple divers like a friendly puppy dog .
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
WELCOME to what could be the world's tallest TOTALLY wooden construction .
PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .
Megan Brailsford, 32, from Cambridgeshire, met Daniel Dugdale, 29, in September 2020 .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .