FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public. This fashion fail could be justified if it was limited to the outdoors - because many ladies in China are particularly sensitive about shielding their faces from the sun. However, some of these women are taking face-protection too far by keeping their visors on even the sun-free INDOORS. This summer ladies across China are scaring small children by wearing what looks more like a welding mask than this season
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
A lively lemon shark grins into the camera and showcases his impressive teeth .
An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows .
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 .