A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach. Lying on the sand, the seal gazes down at her fluffy baby as it playfully wriggles around underneath her flipper. The heart-warming scene was captured by 46-year-old photographer Elmar Weiss on a beach in Heligoland, Germany. Elmar, of Hamburg, Germany says: "I have never seen such a loving bond between a seal and her baby before...
A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
A first-time mum has told how she was allergic to her unborn baby after she developed an angry red rash all over her body .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
A woman has revealed how cruel bullies taunted her daily at school, calling her names like 'pig nose' and 'no nose' .
An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .