FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public. This fashion fail could be justified if it was limited to the outdoors - because many ladies in China are particularly sensitive about shielding their faces from the sun. However, some of these women are taking face-protection too far by keeping their visors on even the sun-free INDOORS. This summer ladies across China are scaring small children by wearing what looks more like a welding mask than this season
An elegant snowy owl spreads her wings and glides effortlessly above the snow covered field .
WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
Whether they’re sharing a bath or snuggled up during a nap, a baby and his bulldog buddy make an utterly adorable twosome .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
From squids to Star Wars, these flipping marvellous creations are pancake portraits .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
Exibiting their superhuman strength these ants look ready to create an art attack by lifting pencils several thousand times their own weight .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .