WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state. Instead of using traffic lights to control the stop and go flow of the cross-roads, attractive women dressed in perfectly crisps and identical outfits dangerously stand along in the middle of the road on a small platform. Displaying riveting focus, they are only allowed to turn counter-clockwise, directing traffic with forceful and halting movements. They have been the subject of photographic study for many years but French photographer Eric Lafforgue, 49, captured these moments during six trips to the Marxist country.
PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
It’s a role reversal in the Visayan Sea as HUNDREDS of tiny, glistening eggs are carried around inside the mouth of their cardinalfish father .
A former food addict who had spent her whole life dreaming of romance shed an astonishing 12st 7lbs to experience love for the first time .
A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .
A photographer has transformed women with alopecia into stunning sirens - showing that bald is beautiful .
AN ADORABLE one-eyed kitten has been dubbed the 'pirate cat' because of his pirate-like facial expressions .
A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .
THESE LOVE BIRDS can’t keep their beaks off each other as they share a very public display of affection .
A mum has celebrated each of her four pregnancies with a host of wacky stunts - including acrobatics, aerial contortion, pole-dancing and risque photo shoots .