A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .

FULL OF STUNNING colours and swirling shapes, the furrows on these fields create a mix of mesmerising patterns .

A 20st mum-of-four who was dangerously obese has lost half her body weight after her son drew her as a BLOB at school .

HOTSPOT MEDIA - FUNKY BUMP: FROM MIRROR bellies to rainbow bumps these pregnancy casts of stone and bronze could be the funkiest way to preserve your bump for posterity .

Scurrying along the branch of a tree, a little squirrel pushes a pram packed full of Easter treats .

STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .

Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .

SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .

A 21st stone woman suffering from 'body blindness' like Dawn French shed more than half her body weight after a shock revelation brought her to her senses .

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

A man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .

A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .