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 baby girl has become the youngest British patient to receive a life-saving cardiac operation after her heart swelled to twice its normal size within days of her birth .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
An American black bear mimics John Travolta’s famous Saturday Night Fever dance move by hurling its arm in the air .
Brave Amy, 18, has waived her anonymity to tell how she jailed rapist Philip Sims-Neighbour, 37, of Hylton Road, Worcester .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
A five-week-old newborn from Fife has become the UK’s youngest beauty pageant baby .
A young polar bear cub becomes the yogi bear as she stretches off for a morning aerobics session .
Some parents would gasp at the thought of their children playing with a toy gun, but these Russian children are actually encouraged to take up real arms .
A woman has revealed how she almost died after she developed sepsis from a cold .
Throwing their arms up in the air, these energetic squirrels play a game of ball with a walnut .