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The odd, odd world we live in!

August 19, 2015 08:25 IST
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These images from across the globe tell that it is a crazy world out there!

A US marine drinks the blood of a cobra during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai Navy as part of the "Cobra Gold 2013" joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri province, Thailand. Photograph: Damir Sagolj/Reuters


Residents have breakfast in bed during a challenge for the most people having breakfast in bed together in the Guinness World Records at a Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, China. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images


Staff wear No-Face masks during working hours at a service company in Handan, Hebei Province of China. As a service company, its staffs must smile to customers everyday. On 'No-Face Day', the staffs wore No-Face masks to reduce pressure and relax themselves.

No-Face is a silent masked creature who has no facial expressions in Japanese animated fantasy film 'Spirited Away'. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images


Fans go crazy as Saban’s Power Rangers Dino Super Charge are revealed for the first time ever at the official San Diego Comic-Con Power Rangers panel during San Diego Comic-Con in San Diego, CA. Photograph: Araya Diaz/Getty Images


Cyclists hang on to the back of a truck outside the capital Bujumbura, as the country awaits next week's presidential elections.

Each day scores of cyclists make the 45 kilometer downhill journey at breakneck speed from Bugarama to sell bananas, often hanging from the back of trucks for the return uphill trip. Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters


A rat being trained by the Cambodian Mine Action Centre is pictured on an inactive landmine field in Siem Reap province. Gambian pouched rats were deployed to Cambodia from Tanzania in April by a Belgian non-profit organization, APOPO, to help clear mines.

They've been trained since they were 4 weeks old. Cambodia is still littered with landmines after emerging from decades of civil war, including the 1970s Khmer Rough "Killing Fields" genocide, leaving it with one of the world's highest disability rates. APOPO has used the rodents for mine-clearing projects in several countries, including Angola, Mozambique, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. Photograph: Samrang Pring/Reuters


An impersonator poses in costume as the character Mr Spock from the science fiction series "Star Trek" at the London Film and Comic-Con in London, Britain. Photograph:  Neil Hall/Reuters


Cleaners spray clean the 37-meter tall tourism icon of the Merlion on the resort island of Sentosa ahead of the city-state's 50th anniversary celebrations in Singapore. The five day long cleaning is the mythical creature's first "bath" since its last cleaning in 2012. Photograph:  Edgar Su/Reuters


A female boar and her piglets cross a street during the night in Gdynia. Photograph: Radu Sigheti/Reuters


An umbrella with a diameter of 23-meter unfolds at XingziTown in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province of China.

The eighteen-meter-high umbrella with a diameter of 23-meter which could shades 418-square-meter area and resist force nine gale would be recorded in the Guinness World Records on August 3 in Jiujiang. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images


A reveller relaxes inside a 3-D Luminarium inflatable installation by British designer Alan Parkinson during Sziget music festival on an island in the DanubeRiver in Budapest, Hungary. Photograph: Laszlo Balogh/Reuters


People look at the lighting test inside a new sculpture in the shape of a giant oil bubble, at a tourism resort built near the first drilling well of the Karamay oil field, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China.

The sculpture, consisting of one giant "oil bubble" and many small "old bubbles" which are mostly made of stainless steel, will be finished at the end of August, local media reported. Photograph: Reuters/Stringer


A participant carries a pig in the 'greased pig contest' at the Festival du Cochon (Pig Festival) in Sainte-Perpetue, Quebec. Christinne Muschi/Reuters


An old car used for advertising is seen at the roof of Phaeton museum in Zaporizhia, Ukraine.

The museum stopped the restoration works of their collection of about 120 retro autos and motorcycles to help the Ukrainian army to restore military vehicles and equipment which will be used in the conflict in Ukraine eastern regions, according to Phaeton museum. Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters


A volunteer carries milk churns as he helps land art artist Gerard Benoit a la Guillaume to form an art installation at the Chenau de Mayen in the resort of Leysin, Switzerland.

More than 80 milk churns were placed between the Tour d'Ai and the Tour de Mayen summits at an altitude of 6,561 feet above sea level under the direction of the artist, to be photographed for his ongoing art project entitled "Milk churns without borders". Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

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