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.
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
AN underground HOBBIT motel inspired by JRR Tolkien is just one of the unique places to stay at the world's most unusual hotel complex .
The aurora lights captured in Blair Nebraska, America - WITH electrifying purple and illuminous green brightening up the night sky, this is the rare moment a flash of 'sprite' lightening was captured on camera .
An Australian beach is illuminated by an enticing neon blue glow as a rare phenomenon lights up the water .
While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .
In June 2023, Aimee da Cunha, 33, from Perth, Australia, was boiling potatoes on the stove when her two-year-old daughter, Hailey, knocked the pan of water over her .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
A mother-of-one has told how she nearly died after contracting toxic shock syndrome from a tampon .
PERCHING on top of a gate, this young barn swallow waits patiently for his mum to return with dinner .