A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post. These adorable photographs of two playful bear cubs and their watchful mum were captured by American nature photographer D. Robert Franz, 56, on a visit to Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. 'What we see in these photographs is the interaction between the mother brown bear and her two cubs,' says D. Robert, of Cody, Wyoming.
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
A HEIGHT-addicted airline pilot has taken pictures of the Dubai from 1,300-feet .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
The view from this rooftop pool is sure to make most holidaymakers envious .
SITTING quietly at the edge of the lake, these two baby bears watch and learn as the adults hunt for fish .
