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 feisty squirrel takes on a fearsome foe when he decides to tackle a T-REX .
A woman has taken her house back in time - by spending £10,000 to transform it into her Victorian dream home .
A six-year-old boy has been left almost blind after a one-in-a-million allergic reaction to antibiotics .
A woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .
DIVING boffins fired harpoons into 30-foot-long whale sharks in a bid to put the sea-beasts on Google Maps .
ARMED with her camera, bikini and flippers, this brave diver goes swimming with SHARKS .
The UK's first hotline - and possibly the galaxy's - for people who have been targeted by aliens has opened to the public .
The family of a disabled boy who died in a tragic accident at a care home have received a four figure payout after an inquest heard carers allowed him to fall rather than restrain him because of "health and safety" fears .
TUGGING at his exhausted mum's ears, a beautiful baby orangutan refuses to settle for a nap as he begins a game of peek-a-boo .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
Here's a APPY solution that should brighten up a wet weekend away camping - a wood powered stove that also recharges your smartphone .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .