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.
Armed with a snorkel, flippers and her skimpy bikini, an intrepid female free diver swims alongside an array of reef sharks .
With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet .
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 .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
A diver attempts to control rising numbers of lionfish by feeding the venomous species to Caribbean reef sharks .
A luxury caravan with a price tag of ONE MILLION DOLLARS is due to hit the road later this year .
ROLLING around in the snow, these young brown bears take a break from their play fight to share a tender hug with one another .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
Most people bend over backwards to keep children entertained, but this baboon show us how it’s done .