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.
Southern England, the south-west and west Wales have been warned to expect more wild weather, with heavy rain and high tides possibly leading to coastal flooding and travel disruption over the weekend .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
Families in an Indian slum put their lives on the line by living on top of an ACTIVE railway track .
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 .
Lying angelically with a range of expressions etched on their tiny faces, little bundles of joy are innocently captured in their first few days in these adorable photographs .
CARRYING a fully grown goat on his back, this five-year-old boy is a child shepherd in the mountains of northern Ethiopia .
A BABY-faced burglar is starting a seven year stretch in custody after being nabbed by a Jaffa Cake .
Exploding out of the water, a great white shark performs a backflip during a hunt for seals .
A grand 56-bedroom hotel, once heaving with injured soldiers during the First World War, now lies completely abandoned .
AN ANGRY giraffe gave a bush-riding cyclist a scare when he stomped his £2K bike into the dirt .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .