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.
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
LEAPING through the air this determined little mouse is on a mission for food .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
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 .
TOWERING 65 metres into the sky, this terrifying accent is a dream for climbers .
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
GETTING behind the camera, this monkey practices his photography skills on his friends .
Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .
THESE kaleidoscopic-like photographs capture England’s churches and cathedrals in all their glory .
