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..
SPLASHING in the water and fighting in-between rocks, these energetic tigers enjoy their fun-filled morning .
STAR-TI-LING: 40,000 STARLINGS MIMIC HITCHCOCK'S THE BIRDS- This could be the fearsome scene from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds as a flock of 40,000 starlings bask in the heat of a wonderful British sunset .
Brave Amy, 18, has waived her anonymity to tell how she jailed rapist Philip Sims-Neighbour, 37, of Hylton Road, Worcester .
Lauren Kilgariff, 29, was with husband, Shaun, 31, for four years .
A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .
SOARING through the air, a hungry white-tailed kite prepares to snatch a vole from his mother’s claws .
The lighthouses of Brittany, from Brest to Le Conquet, stand tall on France’s north-western coast against stunning scenery .
An adorable little squirrel wakes from a nap and pops out his tongue for the camera .
Sitting all alone on drift ice in the Arctic Ocean, this lonely little fella looks lost .
A woman who was cruelly called ‘tumour girl’ by bullies has finally found love .
A mum-of-two has worn the same t-shirt for an entire year to raise awareness of a 1 in 7 million condition that prevents her daughter from talking .
An adorable orangutan named Pongo celebrates his first birthday at Zoo Atlanta, Georgia, America .