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.
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
Grandmother Janet Kirby was told she couldn't board her plane home after being accused of assault .
Leaping out of the ocean, a group of gentoo penguins fly through the air before landing safely on an iceberg .
CLIMBING, falling and tugging on his weary mum, this little orangutan is up to all kinds of trouble .
A BROWN bear wades through waters in Alaska and waits for his lunch .
BREATHING life back into old photographs, these black and white images are transformed by colour .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - FUNKY BUMP: FROM MIRROR bellies to rainbow bumps these pregnancy casts of stone and bronze could be the funkiest way to preserve your bump for posterity .
Soldiers standing guard outside the Woolwich barracks in London - Two terror suspects are under armed guard in separate hospitals in London after a serving soldier was hacked to death in the street .
IN THE not so MISTY MOUNTAINS of Wiltshire, there lies an abandoned hobbit house .
A Canadian couple celebrated their engagement by recreating iconic moments from the film The Notebook .
FROM MRS Patmore to Lady Sybil, these barking mad illustrations show the WOOF-er side of some of our most loved Downton characters .