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.
Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
Destroyed buildings and overturned cars are seen after a huge tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, May 20, 2013 .
SPURTING water 20ft into the air, this is one well you wouldn't want to dip your bucket into .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
LYING flat out on his back, this little meerkat makes the most of the English sunshine .
CREATED over 60 years ago, this weighty machine was the Photoshop of its time .
AN ANOREXIC dental nurse whose weight plummeted to less than four stone has won her NHS fight for more treatment .
FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .
A woman has lost an incredible 13st after a group of men cruelly threw a kebab at her as she walked down the street .
This daredevil wildebeest tried a walk on the wild side - straight into the snatches of a huge 18 foot crocodile .