SURROUNDED by a snowstorm, these young polar bears battle the elements - as well as each other .

The sun is finally out, bringing a smile to many people’s faces – including this cute little dormouse’s! Grinning from ear to ear, this tiny dormouse appears to have been tickled by something as it clambered up this flower, basking in the sunshine, whilst having a little laugh to himself .

An American man who suffered horrific third-degree burns to 70 percent of his body in a childhood accident has faced his fears by becoming a firefighter .

A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .

An obese woman has lost 9st after an addiction to junk food left her £1 .

A DARING duo take their chances and scale this spectacular 82ft frozen waterfall before it collapses .

FROM THE world famous Girl with a Pearl Earring painting to a jaguar in the grass, these incredible drawings are created from coloured ballpoint pens .

FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature .

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 .

A skydiver cheated death after plunging 13,000 feet without his parachute opening but survived after landing in a bog .

BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .

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 .