ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another. The cubs reveal their sweet sibling bond by wrapping their arms around each other. Italian photographer Alberto Ghizzi Panizza captured the special moment in the Bavarian Forest in Bavaria, Germany. The 39-year-old, of Parma, Italy, says: “Bears, especially young ones, are very playful and curious.
STRIKING photos capture nature at its most raw and powerful during Earth’s most electrifying event .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
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 .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
A ROAD KILL munching Scot has chewed on everything from a dead squirrel to an unlucky crow – all in the name of art .
WIDE EYED and staring straight down the lens of the camera, this intrigued seal is ready for his close up .