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.
A reformed boozer, who spent nine months partying in Magaluf, has shed over 6 stone after ditching her ladette lifestyle to become a fitness fanatic .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
THIS is the awesome moment an Osprey catches its prey travelling at 50mph, giving new meaning to FAST FOOD .
HUDDLED together on a branch, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls soak up the sun .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
THIS alien-like bug would look more at home in outer-space but it can actually be found wriggling around here on Earth .
A survivor of abuse has bravely waived her anonymity to tell how she was sexually assaulted from the age of nine - by her depraved grandad .
At 19st and eight months pregnant, Ashley Whitfield, went into hospital to have her baby son, Isaac, delivered by emergency C-section .
A woman with a rare allergy to water has told how the condition is so severe it prevents her from KISSING her fiance .
A restaurant famed for creating the 3lb cheeseburger has unveiled its latest culinary challenge – the largest chilli cheese hotdog in Europe .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .