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.
TOMORROW (Saturday) marks the 28th anniversary of the nuclear disaster that left the city of Chernobyl devastated .
PERCHED on a branch, this Little Owl plays third wheel to two love birds .
FIFTEEEN years after it was closed pictures by a British teacher show the calamity Hong Kong airport that was closed for being too dangerous .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
A pair of chicks bravely decided to befriend a python, despite being the snake's favourite choice of food .
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 .
Animal rescue volunteers have told how a cat riddled with cancer was forced to ripped off its own ears after it was abandoned by its owners .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
A Birmingham man inspired by sci-fi film Wall-E, has created a one- wheeled vehicle, controlled by signals from his BRAIN .
Fetching a tiny carrot and a head-shaped snowball, a red squirrel builds the perfect snowman .
Swimming side by side with divers, these manatees will do anything they can to stay warm .