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.
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SOME OF the sea’s most terrifying creatures show their softer side as they join a group of diners for lunch .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
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 .
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
A pair of snarling foxes go paw-to-paw and brawl after unexpectedly crossing paths .