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.
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS - 250 DRIVERS ARRESTED FOR STREET RACING IN BIRMINGHAM- In Pic - The start line on the Heartlands Parkway Nechels Birmingham .
WITH his spiked ears and yellow and blue body, a colourful monkey bears an uncanny resemblance to Marvel Comics’ Wolverine .
From a platter of finger licking chicken wings to a bowl of Chinese noodle soup, these foodie snaps are enough to make your savoury saliva glands drool .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
DIPPING his head into the vase of water, this little squirrel takes a refreshing break from an afternoon of eating .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
GIANT garden sculptures don't beat about the bush .
In the calm waters of Greenland, gigantic icebergs dwarf everything around them .
With the full moon looming behind him, this polar bear nestles down for the night .
LIKE A living balloon this baitball of sardines is ready to burst when threatened by a pointy nosed sailfish .
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 .