DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps. These may be 30 tonne whoppers - but that doesn't mean the movements of whale sharks don't remain a mystery. Pictures show brave marine scientists tagging the huge fish with harpoons to track their 8,000 mile journeys through the sea at depths of up to 3,000-feet. Underwater photographer Peter Verhoog, from Holland teamed up with Dr Mark Meekan of the Australian Institute of Marine Science to cover the underwater research project in Ningaloo Reef, 800-miles off the coast of Western Australia
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USUALLY full to bursting, these London Underground stations stand silent and completely commuter free .
STEPFORD wives from the 1950's and 60's are performing history's most sexist exercise programme .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .
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 .