A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach. Lying on the sand, the seal gazes down at her fluffy baby as it playfully wriggles around underneath her flipper. The heart-warming scene was captured by 46-year-old photographer Elmar Weiss on a beach in Heligoland, Germany. Elmar, of Hamburg, Germany says: "I have never seen such a loving bond between a seal and her baby before...
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A panic stricken kitten that got her head stuck in a car tyre has been freed by quick thinking RSPCA staff .
15-foot-long great white sharks on the hunt, in False Bay, South Africa - SHOCK and awe pictures of 15-foot-long great whites on the hunt will leave you stunned .
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
PERCHING on the edge of a flower, these loved-up caterpillars can't resist each other as they enjoy a romantic moment together .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
BALANCING on top of a tree, this bear cub puts her climbing skills to the test .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
YOU’VE heard of the northern lights now feast your eyes on the natural wonder of the SOUTHERN lights .