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.
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
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 .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
Tina O’Brien, 54, from East Midlands, met Frederick Allchorne, now 62, when she was 15 .
A coroner stunned an inquest into a honeymooner who died abroad today by asking her husband if he was involved in her drugs death .
A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .
This was the chaotic scene when the driver of a 4x4 vehicle became periously trapped under his vehicle for an HOUR when it overturned after a crash on a busy motorway .
FOR most restaurateurs, the phrase ‘the customer is always right’ is gospel .