This is the moment a nimble red fox and a lumbering Alaskan brown bear were locked in a tense stand-off .

SWOOPING down from the sky, this agitated eagle is looking for a fight .

A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .

A Romanian woman is celebrating her new job as a knife-thrower’s assistant after leaving her family behind to move to the UK .

PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .

A KITTEN'S teaparty and rat's playing dominoes are the bizarre creations by one of Britain's great eccentrics pictured in an incredible new book .

HEARTWARMING belongings lie abandoned in this eerie former dairy farm which has been left to crumble away for decades .

A former soldier who bravely took on penny-pinching NHS bosses in his fight against terminal cancer has died, aged 37 .

While often referred to as the kings of the jungle, gorillas - for all their might - are notorious hydrophobes .

A makeup artist from the West Midlands magically transforms herself into famous cartoon characters using body paint .

BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .

A fox takes a tumble and lands on his head when he tries to fend off a pair of eagles in Japan .