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.
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A BUMPER season of births has left zoo with three of the cutest exotic kittens you're likely to see .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .