Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice .

A photographer has captured spellbinding images of stars swirling above the English countryside .

THIS is the moment one irritated pelican nearly swallows the entire head of his unlucky competitor .

T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .

FOR someone who hates milk, pensioner Steve Wheeler has got an udder-lot of it - nearly 20,000 bottles in fact .

The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .

A coroner stunned an inquest into a honeymooner who died abroad today by asking her husband if he was involved in her drugs death .

A mum-of-three lost half of her body weight after her daughter was teased by playground bullies for having a 'fat mum' .

A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .

PERCHED on a branch, these two frogs hold hands as they look into the camera .

BRAIDED, sculpted and beaded, these are the eye-catching hairstyles worn by the tribal women of Angola .

A family who were refused the location of their missing cat under the Data Protection Act have been reunited with their moggie after the keepers handed him back .