A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow. Pictured on the coast of Kaktovik on Barter Island, the young polar bears roll around in the powdery snow as they tickle and wrestle together. Finishing their play-date, one of the cheeky bears teasingly sticks out its tongue before bounding towards their mother.
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
A blanket of fog is lit up by the colourful glowing lights of the city below .
Jostling their quills into the noses of some unlucky cubs, this is the moment two feisty porcupines ALMOST defeat a pride of seven lions .
THIS is the EXPLOSIVE moment when a 50 metre high pylon came crashing down to earth in a rural field .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .
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 .
SITTING on a burning sofa unable to move, one man turns his terrifying dreams into reality .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
AN EXERCISING turtle and an ice-skating chick are hardly everyday exploits in the animal community .
WITH STUNNING colours and serene scenes, these photographs capture the otherworldly beauty of the English coast .