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.
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
WELCOME to the drawing room that is home to the £100K world’s greatest collection of Margaret Thatcher autographed objects .
Balanced on one leg, a frog assumes the crane kick martial arts stance made famous in the movie The Karate Kid .
SLEEPING within touching distance of wild African animals might not be everyone's idea of a relaxing break .
A cheeky owl fancies a game of hide and seek as it peeps out from behind a tree .
A proud gorilla mum welcomes her newborn baby western lowland gorilla, a critically endangered species .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
SNEAKING slowly into the water, this Bengal tiger plans a vicious attack on three unsuspecting deer .
An Australian explorer has travelled the globe with a toy pig, known as Travel Piggy, in search of a missing cuddly companion .