This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

A middle spotted woodpecker swoops into her nest and feeds her young in a forest in Trentino, Italy .

A mum-of-two has revealed how her childhood friend of 20 years attacked her with a cosh and broke her nose in a vicious attack .

Growing up, Jasmine Price, now four, loved watching her older sister, Mia Price, now 10, compete in beauty pageants .

Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .

A scoliosis sufferer was heartbroken to learn surgery would stop her dancing - but she battled through the pain to complete her GCSE dance exams and earn A* .

A Little owl looks down the lens of a camera and gives the photographer a cheeky wink .

Meet the real life princess who has spent £10k transforming herself into nine Disney beauties .

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

BASKING in smug satisfaction, a confident squirrel gives a wink to the camera .

WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .

She was the 18th century celebrity who made men faint in awe of her beauty by her very presence .