A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish. Swimming through the water, the striking predator spots a prone sardine and goes straight for the kill. The brilliant underwater photographs were captured off the tip of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico by American wildlife photographer Doug Perrine. The 62-year-old, of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, says: ‘The striped marlins have broken these sardines off from a giant shoal deep below, and forced them upwards to trap them against the surface of the water…
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
