A grey whale and her calf greet an audience of awestruck admirers on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico .

Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .

A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .

A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .

BURSTING colours of reds, pinks and purples give the illusion of a collection of stunning flowers .

HEART-MELTING shots of a French bulldog and a ten-month-old French baby could be the cutest you’re likely to see .

The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .

HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .

A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .