Struggling home entertainment chain Blockbuster has been slammed for advertising its workers' jobs while they are still in them in order to scare them into working harder .

A young orangutan comes over all shy as she hides her face behind a broken bucket .

If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .

Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .

Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .

ROLLING up snow in its tiny paws, this little squirrel is looking for a snowball fight .

JUDGE BLASTED FOR LETTING PAEDO WALK FREE A PERVERT who sexually assaulted two young girls on an allotment, telling them he was brushing spiders off them, has walked free from court – because jailing him was ‘unfair’ on his family .

FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .

Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

DINING under the stars, this restaurant takes you back in time - inside an ancient cave .