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.
STOLEN £2K BULLDOG REUNITED WITH FAMILY VIA TWITTER - A £2,000 bulldog puppy snatched from her home by burglars has been reunited with her family thanks to Twitter .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
This hungry white tiger has just one thing on her mind - to taste fresh meat .
CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .
The gunslingers are long gone and tumbleweeds have taken over at this abandoned American Wild West Theme Park in Cornwall .
A mining town in Australia’s outback appears to be completely deserted, but its residents have escaped the scorching heat by living in underground caves .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
AIRPORT staff have been put on alert after diet pills that come in grenade shaped containers sparked security alerts .
A Brit photographer has captured one of the world's most camera-shy species of fish - during a game of underwater peek-a-boo .