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

WITH SNOW COVERING the ground around them, these two polar bears play fight .

MOUTH OPEN wide, this little stoat appears to be in mid-song as he belts out a tune for his onlookers .

This frozen lighthouse in Michigan could easily be mistaken for a still from the snow swept disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow .

A man who conned tax officials out of £34 million and funded a lavish lifestyle of luxury hotels and restaurants has been jailed for one of the longest sentences in British criminal fraud history .

THE TOWERING Irish cliffs of Moher stand tall over the rippling Atlantic Ocean .

A lazy tree frog, tired of hopping along a branch, chooses the slowest form of transport when it jumps on top of an unsuspecting snail .

A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .

Oday she is a picture of health - a happy, smiling child, enjoying life to the full .

AN expectant mum suffered crippling contractions lasting a gruelling two months, due to complications from a rare condition .

CAMPED out in the middle of a forest, these unusual hut hotels take you back to basics .

A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .