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.
A young woman has told how she has been robbed of her fertility and now faces an uncertain future after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of just 22 .
A once bustling gold rush town in Mono County, California now stands completed deserted .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
A former cosmetic rep who swapped make-up for a career as a Marilyn Monroe lookalike has pocketed a staggering $4million (£2,630,000) as a full-time doppelgänger .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
PILES of trash provide a living for thousands in Nairobi, Kenya .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .
Swirling water and sand create amazing aerial images of river deltas across Iceland .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
SAILING peacefully across a river in the early morning light, a fisherman in China keeps a 1000 year old tradition alive .