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.
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 .
With blue waves tumbling over them, these surfers glide underneath a tunnel of water .
An Italian photographer travelled to the highlands of New Guinea where he met an Indonesian tribe untouched by the modern world .
COURAGEOUS climbers descend 400 metres as they manoeuvre their way through thick walls of ice .
THEIR gnarling teeth at the ready, these two baboons fight it out for the last piece of fruit .
HOTSPOT MEDIA - MILEY MASH-UP: MILEY CYRUS’ naked wrecking ball vid has been lampooned in this side-spitting photo-mashup .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A trout manages to escape the jaws of a hungry cormorant - only to find itself back inside the bird's long beak .
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 photographer has travelled the length of the UK capturing lighthouses and their picturesque surroundings .
