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...
Oscar Pistorius entered a courtroom Monday for the start of his murder trial, walking past the victim's mother who says she came to court so she can ‘really look him in the eyes .
FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .
Sprawled out on top of a log, this sleeping leopard takes a relaxing break from his daily routine .
A teenage girl has grown back her entire face after being struck down by a rare skin disease .
Bryanna Debinder, 20, from Pennsylvania in the USA, has lost 7 stone in order to impress her idol .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
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 .
STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .
A DARING duo take their chances and scale this spectacular 82ft frozen waterfall before it collapses .
A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .
At first glance what might look like ordinary rusty bridge and road railings, are in fact amazing works of art .