STANDING on its hind legs, a nosey polar bear presses its paws against the window of a truck and takes a peek at the tourist inside .

LYING back in the snow, these two polar bears share a cuddle as they call time out on playtime .

SURROUNDED by tens of thousands of fish, this outnumbered diver is dwarfed by a mass of sea life .

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 .

Meet the human CCTV: a PCSO with a memory for faces so sharp he has apprehended more than 130 suspects in the last year alone with his eagle eyed talents .

Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .

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 .

At 19st and eight months pregnant, Ashley Whitfield, went into hospital to have her baby son, Isaac, delivered by emergency C-section .

SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .

BOXING DAY has come early for this pair of feisty squirrels, as their Christmas party quickly turns sour .

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 .

A woman has revealed how she almost died after she developed sepsis from a cold .