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.
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A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
This longhorn beetle demon-strates a dark side as it looks just like the devil .
FROM a HOLLYWOOD actress to the face of an innocent child, these are incredible drawings with an unlikely twist .
Kevin Silva, 52 from Indiana in the USA, has spent an estimated £65K ($100K) on Batman trinkets over the years, and even keeps his 2,500-item haul in his very own basement 'Bat Cave' .
These are the men with one of the most unpleasant jobs in the world .
An Italian photographer travelled to Chile where he visited several star-gazing sites, home to some of the world's most advanced telescopes, located in the spectacular setting of the Atacama desert .
An Italian photographer travelled to northern India where he visited poverty stricken suburbs and captured ordinary people in a series of intimate and expressive portraits .
A striped marlin means business as it spots lunch and spears a small fish .
THIS ONE of a kind experience brings a whole new meaning to the phrase 'a coffee to go' .
A northern potoo shows it is a master of disguise as it perches on a tree stump and blends into the bark .
FLEXING his muscles and staring straight at his opponent, this bodybuilding squirrel is the nuts .