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..
COURAGEOUS CLIMBERS scale frozen waterfalls in Canada, as the ice threatens to collapse beneath them .
A US firefighter has battled osteoarthritis and four hip replacements to break the world paddleboarding record .
GLAMPING is taken to a whole new level in the form of the luxurious Pop-Up Hotel .
INSIDE Britain's last Naval hospital where scurvy was cured looks like an NHS time capsule .
An artist has transformed traditional Thanksgiving dinners into mini-masterpieces .
BLOWING bubbles underwater, this adorable polar bear slides into his tank for a playful dip .
A PENSIONER was left with a fractured jaw after being beaten and robbed outside his home in Birmingham last weekend .
The beds are consumed by moss instead of customers at this abandoned hotel .
These uninvited guests ELEPHANTLY make their annual trip through the reception of this welcoming lodge .
PICKING up a tiny tea-pot with its paws, a little red squirrel struggles to prepare its morning tea .
AT 4,800 metres high and just three metres wide, this is the most dangerous road in the world .
WITH HIS PAW covering his mouth, this cheeky cub looks amused by something .