With luminous colours and alien- like features, these magical mushrooms look like they belong on another planet. These mesmorising pictures, however, capture the beautiful variety of fungi here on Earth. The incredible images were taken by Australian photographer Stephen Axford, 62, after he became familiar with the importance of fungi in everyday life, and decided to document it twelve years ago..
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
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A hypnotherapist filmed himself sexually abusing a 19-year-old patient while she was in a trance-like state .
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THIS LITTLE squirrel tries to keep himself snug as snow starts to fall around him .
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A COUNCIL has come under fire for slapping fines on people’s GRAVESTONES for breaching petty regulations on pot plants .