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10 images from an incredibly odd world we live in!
A model poses backstage ahead of the Bondi Bather show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Carriageworks in Sydney, Australia. Photograph: Mark Nolan/Getty Images
A visitor looks at a sculpture of Alibaba Group Executive Chairman Jack Ma, made of coloured 3D printing chunk materials, at an international job fair in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The 2-metre-high half-body sculpture consists of a total of 324 pieces of 3D printing materials made by 100 different participants around China, which were later put together by a company in Beijing. Photograph: Reuters
Participants take part in the Color Run near the EiffelTower in Paris. The Color Run is a five-kilometre race, held in cities across the US and also worldwide, with the aim of promoting healthy living and to benefit a charity that organisers choose in each of the cities that the run visits. Participants are doused from head to toe in different colors at each kilometre. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters
Runners wearing superhero costumes take part in a DC Comics fun run in Manila. To celebrate the anniversary of the publication of the very first Superman story, DC Comics asked fans to help set a new world record for the largest global gathering of people dressed as DC Comics Super Heroes. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters
Cheng Chen, a 27-year-old worker at a state-owned enterprise, poses for a photograph with his nephew who is wearing his home-made Iron Man armour, in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. It cost Cheng about 500 yuan ($81 USD) to make the armour, which weighs about 4 kilograms, with plastic boards and LED lights. Photograph: Reuters
‘Red Walrus 2011’, a red walrus made of dental composite resin, whiskers and brown glass eyes by Belgian artist Carsten Hoeller at the price of 90,000 Euros ($65,300) lies on the ground of the Art Cologne 2015 fair. Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
Girls enjoy a camel ride in a public park as Egyptians celebrate the spring holiday of Sham el Nessim on the outskirts of Cairo. Photograph: Asmaa Waguih/Reuters
A woman walks past a man blending himself into the background by covering his body with paint, in front of the wall of an ancient building in Shanghai. Photograph: Reuters
People look at a giant inflated doll in the shape of a woman, on a square in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The 30-metre-long, 7-metre-wide doll was made by a local company, and also serves as an inflated ‘castle’ for children to play inside. Photograph: Reuters
Beauty pageant models in bikinis walk on a cliff pathway 2,000 meters above the ground as part of a challenge in Luoyang, Henan province of China. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images