A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish. Swimming through the water, the striking predator spots a prone sardine and goes straight for the kill. The brilliant underwater photographs were captured off the tip of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico by American wildlife photographer Doug Perrine. The 62-year-old, of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, says: ‘The striped marlins have broken these sardines off from a giant shoal deep below, and forced them upwards to trap them against the surface of the water…
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A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
AN ANOREXIC dental nurse whose weight plummeted to less than four stone has won her NHS fight for more treatment .