BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test. The one year old Eurasian brown bear cub, with the help of her mother and other siblings, scampers ten metres up the tree trunk, before perching on one of the branches. The nimble cub clings on with her claws as the tree wobbles back and forth. This adorable family bonding time was captured by Lithuanian photographers Dalia Kvedaraite, 35, and Giedrius Stakauskas, 38, on a visit to the Martinselkonen Nature Reserve, Russia.
A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .
MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .
SWIMMING next to 40 tonne whales, dare-devil divers take the plunge with these gentle giants of the sea .
MASKED intruders look sinister but really they are a gang of urban exploring pranksters .
OFFERING a glimpse into the past, a mash-up of old and new photographs show how the world’s biggest cities have changed .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .