Bird’s eye views are comparatively rare in the daily news file.

Though not the high impact, immediately understood news and sports pictures we usually aim for, they can deliver a huge amount of information and fascinating detail, which unfortunately is not best illustrated in a low resolution format like this blog.

It is a strange coincidence that two should appear on the same day, albeit of vastly differing subjects. 

Zahid Hussein illustrates the biggest international news story of the day with this picture of family and supporters placing the body of murdered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto into a grave during her funeral in Pakistan.

Despite appearing to illustrate some sort of stand-off between this tightly packed crowd and yellow-jacketed officials, Luke MacGregor’s picture shows nothing more disturbing than bargain hunters waiting for the doors to open on Harrod’s winter sale in London.