A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow. Pictured on the coast of Kaktovik on Barter Island, the young polar bears roll around in the powdery snow as they tickle and wrestle together. Finishing their play-date, one of the cheeky bears teasingly sticks out its tongue before bounding towards their mother.
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
It's incredible to think anyone could live in such horrendous squalor - yet two men have been prosecuted for keeping their homes in such revolting conditions that it was no longer fit for their animals .
A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and for this greedy camel he can't get enough of his morning feed, as he gate crashes his owner's mealtime .
A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .
A loving daughter has set up a Facebook page in a desperate plea to strangers, to donate a kidney to her dying mum .
Villages on the Somerset Levels have faced weeks of flooding with no respite from the conditions in sight .
An intrepid photographer travelled to the abandoned ghost town of Bodie in northern California to capture the historic buildings that are trapped in time .
A woman with a rare allergy to water has told how the condition is so severe it prevents her from KISSING her fiance .
Magical photos of your baby smiling for the first time are a priceless treasure for many a proud parent .
Meet the dog-loving woman who spends £20k a year looking after her 30 pet PUGS .