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…
Beautiful turquoise waves rise and fall in a series of stunning images taken along the coastline of south-eastern Australia .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .