TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo. The Sumatran tiger cubs are given a full examination by zoo staff to ensure they’re in purr-fect shape. The trio, born to mother Kirana and father Fabi on 2nd January, huddle together after their checks, which included being examined, sexed, weighed and vaccinated.
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
A British jewellery designer with a passion for London's iconic Gherkin has created a pen with an INK-REDIBLE price tag of £27,500 .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
Blonde teen Jess Stubbs has certainly got girl power - as Britain’s youngest TRUCKER .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .