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.
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
With one hand rested on his belly and the other propping his head up, this lazy lizard takes an afternoon break .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A BEAUTIFUL sight for the eyes and the imagination, these liquid sculptures take shape in many different colours and formations .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .