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.
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
This cheeky chappie is getting into all kinds of monkey business as he enjoys cooling off on a scorching hot day .
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 .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .
With an abandoned tricycle sitting in an empty corridor, this derelict but once grand mansion could be the setting for The Shining .
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
PERCHING on the edge of a flower, these loved-up caterpillars can't resist each other as they enjoy a romantic moment together .
Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .