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 US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
UNDERWATER and above-water seaside shots show the best of British beach-life .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .
POWERFUL bolts of lightning illuminate the night sky in an incredible autumn storm over the Sardinian coastline .
A SPECTACULAR array of stars fills the night sky as they soar over this active volcano .
MAKING himself at home, this little snail perches happily on top of this frog's head .
A doting seal smiles at her sweet little pup as she tickles its tummy on the beach .
RAISING his flipper, this two day old seal pup gives a wave to the camera .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
MESMERIZING night sky photographs offer a spellbinding look at the stars .
NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013 .
SITTING in the middle of a vast desert, an abandoned cinema is still waiting for its first movie to be screened .