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.
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .
HUNDREDS of hot air balloons decorate the sky above Turkey as the rising sun illuminates the spectacular scenery below .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
SWIMMING slowly towards the shore, a small group of bottlenose dolphins arrive for breakfast at a beach in Western Australia .
CCTV shows a dark figure dumping the dog- A pet dog suffering with cancer has been put down after being dumped at an animal rescue in what officials said is the worst abandonment of any animal they have witnessed .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
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