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.
BALANCING 30 metres above ground, these slackliners take the expression of living dangerously one step further, by tightrope walking NAKED .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
An artist has NAILED IT by creating beautiful and perfectly precise artwork using a hammer and 30,000 nails .
These adorable pictures show the moment two cuddly red panda cubs take their first look at the outside world and are weighed for the very first time .
Brave Amy, 18, has waived her anonymity to tell how she jailed rapist Philip Sims-Neighbour, 37, of Hylton Road, Worcester .
A mum who weighed just 8st 1lb at eight months pregnant has battled her eating disorder to give birth to a healthy baby girl .
A woman with a fear of flying claims she was humiliated after an Emirates airline staff member told her she could ‘go to prison for four years’ for possessing diazepam medication .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .