PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session. These coastal brown bears gather for the sockeye salmon, who are attempting to get to their natal spawning ground. The giant fur-balls can eat up to 168 lbs of the protein-rich fish in a single day, providing them with the fat reserves they need to survive the winter hibernation.
With their guts spewing and eyes hanging out, these are the cuddly toys children might be reluctant to curl up to .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
SWIMMING in unison, millions of silverside fish dwarf the divers .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
NOT YOUR everyday selfie, this plucky diver poses with some of the scariest predators in the ocean .
When couples talk about wanting a white wedding, few will be referring to getting hitched on a glacier sat on top of an active volcano .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .