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.
HUDDLING under a leaf, a pair of adorable Javan scops owls take shelter from the rain .
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 .
What lies beneath this building site? Britain's great hope of winning the pre-WW2 arms race against Nazi Germany .
SNOWBOARDING in your £2,000 wedding dress sounds like a nightmare for most brides .
These images of vintage cars, bikes and vans, pictured all over the world, could easily have come from a globetrotting petrol-head’s photo album .
SNUGGLED up in the hay away from the elements, this adorable hoglet has sought solace with a familiar friend .
STAIRWAY obsessed photographers have captured psychedelic shots that will mesmerise you .
CLINGING onto nothing but ice, this brave climber reaches heights of 1000 FEET as he scales frozen solid waterfalls .
STARING open-mouthed into the camera, this shocked fish looks out of place in the middle of its angry friends .
A rare manuscript of one of Charlotte Bronte’s earliest poems went under the hammer today and fetched nearly £100,000 – double what it was expected to get .
ALL IS not as it seems in these deceptive cityscapes .
As sunlight cascades through its vibrant stained glass windows, every inch of the Nasir-ol-Mulk Mosque bursts with colour .