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

EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .

The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .

This may look like a monster car engine that will leave petrol heads in a spin, but it is in fact a rather snazzy looking COFFEE MACHINE .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .

Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .

Those with a fear of flying and a ticket to Lukla Airport will want to look away now .

A man has made a SPUD-TACULAR amount of money sending potatoes in the post .

Gabrielle Dale, 26, was subjected to seven years of coercive control and physical abuse at the hands of her violent boyfriend Sean Owen, 29 .

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

Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .

PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .