STARING intently into the camera, a polar bear appears to be lost in thought while relaxing in the snow .

An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .

Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .

A diver looks like a minnow as she swims alongside a gigantic whale shark, the largest species of fish on the planet .

VENTURING into the ocean with self-made spears and nets, the fishermen of Zanzibar put their lives on the line when they catch food for their families .

A university graduate who was obsessed with achieving a thigh gap has told how she shrunk to just 6st after developing anorexia athletica .

A woman has revealed how she didn’t know she was pregnant until she saw her baby’s head crowning .

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

STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .

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 .

WITH THE WIND blowing through their fur, you'll believe a dog can fly in these hilarious images .

A single woman, who was granted IVF funding on the NHS, finally has a baby after suffering three miscarriages .