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.
A young girl has been forced to stay indoors this winter because a rare allergy to the cold could kill her .
THESE kingfishers prove no rod is needed as they go fishing for their dinner .
A BRITISH couple are the first to tie the knot inside an enormous GLACIER in Iceland .
STARING eagerly into the camera, this little toad is full of curiosity .
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 .
A cheeky chipmunk offers some of his spare food, before deciding against the idea and shoving the extra peanut into his already crammed mouth .
A project to create an underwater tribute to the stone Moai statues of Easter Island ended in disaster when 15 replica structures were destroyed after toppling from a boat and into the sea .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
A woman branded the Jolly Green Giant by SOLE-crushing school bullies for her whopping size nine feet has had the last laugh by opening a shoe shop for big footed girls .
A man who developed anorexia as a teen has told that dying for 20 minutes helped shock him into recovery .
WITH A wide smile plastered across his face, this little gecko is ready for his close up .
From the tails of fighter planes to black and white checked buildings, graveyards take different and unusual forms around the world .