A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow. Pictured on the coast of Kaktovik on Barter Island, the young polar bears roll around in the powdery snow as they tickle and wrestle together. Finishing their play-date, one of the cheeky bears teasingly sticks out its tongue before bounding towards their mother.
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
LEAF-ing much to the imagination, this camera trickery is blooming marvellous .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .