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..
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A student has finally hit puberty after a four year battle against anorexia stunted his growth .
A German photographer travelled around Africa where he met and photographed members of tribes in a series of intimate portraits .
Daniel Blore, 21, of Innage Crescent, Bridgnorth, stabbed his mother three times in the attack on January 11 this year, Stafford Crown Court heard .
A brave leopard kicks back and relaxes in the sunshine - just inches from an enormous crocodile .
A couple have tied the knot in a spectacular Harry Potter-themed wedding which cost £45,000 .
EAGERLY BITING his nails, this little squirrel is clearly nervous of looming predators as he searches for his meal .
T least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon .
FLOATING effortlessly on his back, this little otter laps up a rare glimmer of English spring sunshine .
Bathers on a New Zealand beach stripped naked and took to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to shatter the record for the world's largest skinny dip .