COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .

STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .

WITH the mystical clouds forming a thick blanket and the electrifying lights below, these stunning pictures provide a unique view of the cityscape of Dubai taken from the tallest building in the world .

Splashing around in the water, a mother otter and her son are tangled in a family feud .

This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

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 .

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

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 .

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 .

Here's a collection of art for the DIGIT-AL age as these fascinating illusions of landmarks, places and even a banana are made using just a pair of hands .