A pair of adorable polar bear cubs play-fight with each other in the Alaskan snow .

THE THOUGHT OF BECOMING shipwrecked on a remote destination would fill most holidaymakers with dread .

SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .

A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .

A woman has revealed how she left her husband of 24 years, after falling in love with a man, 18 years her junior .

HOPPING onto the scales, these adorable baby Humboldt penguins are ready for their first weigh-in .

An eight-year-old boy who lost his legs and left hand to meningitis is standing tall after learning to walk on his prosthetic limbs .

A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .

A soldier who lost both legs and an arm in Afghanistan has found love with a blonde bombshell he met through his newfound passion for rally driving .

A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .

STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .

A SPECTRUM of colours fills the sky during this spectacular and natural display of light .