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 man who was stabbed ten times in a frenzied and random attack has told how, two years on, he is too scared to leave his house without his STAB VEST .
FROM ICE bubbles to boiling lava, these photographs highlight the stunning shapes and patterns found in nature .
HUDDLED together in the hollow of a tree, it would be easy to overlook these two sleepy owls as they blend into the trunk .
PEACE and love filled the 1980’s Glastonbury fields as relaxed festival goers kicked back and soaked up the atmosphere .
A transgender woman has revealed how she was able to fund her transformation using £100K gifted to her by online admirers .
The claws come out at meal time as a group of white tailed eagles brawl over road-kill .
SAILING over crystal clear waters, the Bajau people of Malaysia live their lives almost entirely at SEA .
Working at a height of 36,000ft, pilots may have the best view in the world .
SOARING at 112 miles per hour through the air, this petite blonde certainly lives up to her title as the fastest flying woman in the world .
A brave praying mantis makes an unusual friend in an Oriental garden lizard .
Fishermen in Myanmar have perfected an unusual fishing technique by carefully balancing on one leg .
THIS RING of fire in the sky is the annular solar eclipse that wowed our cousins down-under .