Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice. These adorable photographs were taken by Canadian photographer Dennis Minty, 67, when he was working as a polar bear guide on the west side of Hudson Bay, Canada. “This is where bears gather through October and November, in anticipation of the freeze-up of the Bay,” says Dennis, of Newfoundland and Labrador.
AN American accountant has grown the world's biggest MELON and smashed his way into the record books with his mammoth 350 .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
Complete with core, mantle and crust, these incredible planet cakes are truly out of this world .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .
FORGET Thorpe Park this summer as this is a 50 mile-per-hour ride over the Colorado River CANYON .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
SAT ON top of a Brazilian turtle’s head, this little ladybird looks content as he studies his environment from a new height .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
A young otter wades through a lake with his eyes set on an older rival’s fish .
A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .