A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The magnificent mammals swim up to several boats full of tourists and get so close that the passengers can stroke the mother and baby whale. The special moment was photographed by lawyer Andrea Izzotti, 47, of Genovia, Italy. Andrea says: “The mother was milking her calf in shallow waters, but they are very curious animals and they came up to our boats to see the humans.
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
An adorable red squirrel says goodbye to the summer as he shelters from the rain underneath a small blue umbrella .
A former chocolate addict, who used to gobble more than a THOUSAND bars a year, has shed an astonishing 10st after giving up her favourite treats .
THIS is the fascinating abandoned house, complete with mystery portraits and homely items, that has been dubbed - crooked cottage .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
A prolific drug dealer was caught red-handed in a car filled with amphetamines after he decided to park in a top copper's parking space - as a joke .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
Thousands of people are gathering at a stadium in Johannesburg for a memorial service for Nelson Mandela .
Surveying its surroundings, a tiny harvest mouse climbs the stem of a dandelion .
A medical student has gone from chunky to hunky after being dumped by his ex- girlfriend for being too 'chubby' .
Commuters were put in a HOLE lot of trouble after trains were cancelled by a hole created by BADGERS .
She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .