COVERING themselves in ash and face paint, these are the holy men who live their lives away from everyday society. Known as sadhus, they shun all home comforts for a life spent inside caves, forests and temples and can be found across India and Nepal. German banker and photographer Mario Gerth decided to find and photograph the sadhu people. The 38-year-old of Erfurt, Germany, says: “I have been obsessed with the sadhus for many years and set off in 2013 to look for them.
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
A disabled sheep is enjoying a new fleece of life after receiving a specially-designed wheelchair .
FROM COLOURFUL autumn leaves to living trees at first glance you might miss these people blended with nature .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
THIS DANGER-mad female pensioner could be the oldest Brit to cage dive with CROCODILES .
FLAUNTING its new accessory, a fashionable green dumpy tree frog poses for the camera while wearing a SNAIL as a hat .
As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
Ever wished you could live in a house just like Barbie's? Canadian sculptor Heather Benning has created the life-size dollhouse of her dreams out a derelict building .