RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera. After an afternoon of relaxing on the beach, he finally decides to acknowledge his audience as he rolls around in the sand. This adorable seal was photographed by German photographer Jeannette Rudloff, 36, after she spotted the young pup waving on the Island of Heligoland, Germany. 'This small grey seal was not moving too much at first, as he was only a few days old,' says Jeannette, of Morfelden.
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
PUSHING the diver out of his way, this little sea turtle shows he’s not in the mood for photographs .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
GLIDING through the water, these delightful frogs show off their vibrant colours as they practice their FROG crawl .
WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .