PAWS for thought as you feast your eyes on this rare bear bathing session. These coastal brown bears gather for the sockeye salmon, who are attempting to get to their natal spawning ground. The giant fur-balls can eat up to 168 lbs of the protein-rich fish in a single day, providing them with the fat reserves they need to survive the winter hibernation.
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A hungry hippo is seconds away from catching a bird in its gigantic jaws .
A group of whale sharks gather to feed underneath a fisherman’s boat off the coast of Papua, Indonesia .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
A DETERMINED great blue heron holds on tightly to its prey as the furry gopher attempts to wriggle free .
A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .
THESE are the Disney Princesses you wouldn't want to run into in a dark alley .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
WITH THEIR adorable big round eyes and fluffy white fur, these baby seals are cute enough to melt any heart .
A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .
A woman was left fighting for her life after an eczema wound became infected and caused a deadly flesh-eating bug to ravish a hole in her arm .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .