Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .

A woman who suffered from body dysmorphic disorder has overcome her illness by becoming a LINGERIE MODEL .

Staring death in the face, a little field mouse bravely confronts a hungry cat .

Some will get up close and personal with Mother Nature’s deadliest animals to get the perfect shot, posing the question, what lengths will a photographer go to for that all important picture? But in this case, the question should be what depths .

While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .

A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .

The mother of a young woman stabbed 26 times by her ex-partner for having a secret abortion has told how her daughter was cruelly betrayed by her own social worker .

A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .

A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .

A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .

When mum-of-three Becky Tully was told she couldn’t have any more children due to health reasons, she refused to give up on having the little girl she had always wanted .

A cheeky gorilla sticks her tongue out and plays up for the camera at Bronx Zoo .