An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera. Lying on a coconut leaf in the early morning sun, the tiny little rodent has his mouth wide open, before sticking his tongue out in a cheeky gesture. The moment was captured by 19-year-old student, Ranajit Roy in his hometown of Bengaluru, India. He says: 'I was up early and walking when I spotted the Indian palm squirrel asleep in a tree.
STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .
A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
An aerial view of flooding in Gloucestershire .
With the vivid red smoke billowing into the sky amid the misty sand dunes, these are the blissful views provided at the break of dawn at a volcano .
Going for long rides through vast fields together, this twosome share an unbreakable bond .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .