SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia. The dolphins swim into shallow waters, just three metres from the beach, and eat fish from the hands of locals. The eye-opening encounter was captured by 47-year-old lawyer and photographer Andrea Izzotti at Monkey Mia beach, a popular tourist destination on the west coast of Australia.
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .
Kaitlin pictured aged nine - Heart pounding, Kaitlin Womack stared in shock at a Facebook post on her phone .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and for this greedy camel he can't get enough of his morning feed, as he gate crashes his owner's mealtime .
A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her .
WOMB STROKE SURVIVOR AMAZES DOCS BY TAKING FIRST STEPS - A little girl who suffered a catastrophic stroke in the womb which would have killed an adult has stunned the medical world by learning to walk, talk and see .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
Primed and ready for action, this collection of striking images from the battlefield could be mistaken for authentic photos taking during World War II .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
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 .