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.
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A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
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While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .
A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .
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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 .
LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .
CONTRASTING settings reveal some of England’s most beautiful landscapes in all their glory .
These are the amazing close up pictures of North Korea's mass games - after photographers were previously banned from taking shots so close to the dazzling formation dances .