WITH A LITTLE cap of fresh snow resting on his head, this squirrel tries his best to pull off his new look .

A quiet Himalayan mountain village springs to life for a colourful Buddhist festival designed to expel evil spirits and bring happiness .

A group of otters put on a show of aqua aerobics, as they raise their flippers perfectly in sync .

An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .

WELCOME to all that remains of Britain's once state-of-the-art military hospital where plastic surgery was pioneered for injured WW1 troops who survived the SOMME .

A little brown bear cub shows his doting mum that she is always on parent duty as he uses her as a scratching post .

Two people have been arrested after a man and woman were shot dead at a house in the Midlands in the early hours of this morning .

An amputee who was cruelly nicknamed 'peg-leg' by school bullies has conquered her insecurities to become a model .

ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .

FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .

A NINJA red squirrel cuts a dashing figure as the little fella jumps up to ten-feet between treetops in the Yorkshire Dales .

One sheepdog is taking a well-deserved rest after giving birth to a whole WHEELBARROW-FUL of puppies .