A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post. These adorable photographs of two playful bear cubs and their watchful mum were captured by American nature photographer D. Robert Franz, 56, on a visit to Lake Clark National Park, Alaska. 'What we see in these photographs is the interaction between the mother brown bear and her two cubs,' says D. Robert, of Cody, Wyoming.
This daredevil wildebeest tried a walk on the wild side - straight into the snatches of a huge 18 foot crocodile .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
A woman who was addicted to eating curries has shed an impressive 8st after giving up her favourite food .
BEAUTIFULLY lit by the dim glow of lanterns, a cave in Iceland is transformed into the perfect wedding venue .
A widow whose love rat ex-boyfriend left her homeless has had the last laugh after a judge ordered her ex to pay back £300,000 .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
A mum-of-three lost 10 stone after her son asked if she was pregnant .
A former takeaway addict, who once weighed 20st, has lost over 8st in a bid to ditch her ‘fat sister’ tag .
A terrifying prankster has given unsuspecting urban explorers the fright of their lives .