Raising his arms above his head and lying flat on his back, a polar bear stretches as he sprawls out across the ice. These adorable photographs were taken by Canadian photographer Dennis Minty, 67, when he was working as a polar bear guide on the west side of Hudson Bay, Canada. “This is where bears gather through October and November, in anticipation of the freeze-up of the Bay,” says Dennis, of Newfoundland and Labrador.
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
Playing, splashing and generally messing around, these polar bears show they certainly have a soft spot for the water, and not just each other .
A teacher has told how she was attacked by a murderer on her way home from a night out but courageously managed to charm him out of strangling her .
FROM KISSING an alligator on the nose to walking over broken glass, this fearless daredevil is a real life female JACKASS .
TRYING their best to wriggle away, three adorable tiger cubs receive their health checks at Chester Zoo .
If you had to scrape the snow off your car this morning or slip-slide your way into work over icy pavements spare a thought for these little critters .
A woman has told how she fled to Australia, after a one night stand burned down her house .
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 woman with a rare condition that means she collapses every time she laughs fears she may have passed the rare illness onto her young son .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
A British diver has set a new world record for the longest warm water scuba dive by spending a mammoth 49 hours and 56 minutes under water .