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..
A middle-aged couple from Somerset have developed a rather unusual hobby to occupy their time: writing to killers on death row .
BURSTING from the water, a beautiful but deadly Sumatran tiger jumps for food in an Indonesian zoo .
WELCOME to the Hidden Beach - the world's most idyllic BOMB SITE .
TUGGING on the wing of his sibling, this needy owl is after some attention .
HUNDREDS of colour coordinated yarns lie abandoned in this once thriving textile mill .
WITH their robotic movements and pristine uniforms, these are the sexy traffic girls of North Korea that are becoming iconic figures in the secretive state .
CRAZY BEARDS come into their GROWN when they've been twisted and waxed into shape .
A Game of Thrones obsessed couple have fallen in love after meeting at a comic convention dressed as lovestruck characters Daenerys Targaryen and Khal Drago .
When Louise Steen walked down the aisle, she imagined a perfect future with her older hubby – but her life would soon become a living hell .
This is the amazing moment two white-tailed kites take an in-flight meal - exchanging prey at 100 foot high in mid air .
A deranged dad beat his girlfriend so savagely in a vicious 30 minute attack that the indent of his sovereign ring was left on her face .
An osprey soars through the air at 30 miles per hour before swooping down to catch its prey from a lake .