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Egg massage to gum art: Weird PIX from around the world!

Last updated on: March 1, 2012 08:57 IST

We present some of the most unusual photographs from across the globe shot in recent times.

A father gives his baby a head massage with eggs after a haircut at a care center in Hefei, Anhui province, China.

According to traditional Chinese belief, getting a haircut on the second day of the second Chinese lunar month, which fell on February 23 this year, is likely to bring good luck.

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Egg massage to gum art: Weird PIX from around the world!

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Couples participate in a kissing contest at Hefei, Anhui province, in China.

 

A total of 63 couples took part in the contest in which men must carry their partners while kissing and try to last as long as possible. The winner was rewarded with a 1-carat diamond ring, local media reported.


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Egg massage to gum art: Weird PIX from around the world!

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A rock painted as a die is seen in Cadiz, southern Spain.


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A new miniature painting made on discarded chewing gum by artist Ben Wilson is seen on the Millennium Bridge in London. 

 

Wilson has painted miniature works of art on discarded chewing gum in various parts of London and Europe over the past seven years in an effort to "turn something some people would find disgusting into something artistic and beautiful," he said.

 

He chooses gum splatters with unusual shapes "to allow art to happen in a random way." 


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A sheep passes Senegalese troops standing in formation for the arrival of African Union's United Nations mission in Darfur Force Commander Lieutenant General Patrick Nyamvumba of Rwanda, at the Umm Baru team site.


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A reveller celebrates Carnival by covering himself with mud from mangrove swamps in Curuca, Brazil, where the Amazon River pours into the Atlantic.


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European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn presents the EU Commission's interim economic forecast during a news conference at the commission headquarters in Brussels.

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A man dressed as a woman uses an outdoor toilet during the 84th carnival parade of Aalst in Belgium.

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Egg massage to gum art: Weird PIX from around the world!

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A donkey has its coat trimmed along a roadside in Lahore.  

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A boy dressed as Lord Shiva bites the head of a python while performing at a park near a temple during the Mahashivratri festival in Chandigarh.

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Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, who claims to be the world's shortest man standing at a height of 22 inches (56 centimeters), speaks to the media at Tribhuvan International Airport upon his arrival from Nepalgunj, in Kathmandu.

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Stylists apply make up for a model backstage before the Francesco Scognamiglio's 2012 Autumn/Winter collection during Milan Fashion Week.

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A woman takes a mud bath during Jouvert celebrations, a revellery of mass, music, mud and paint which marks the start of the two-day Trinidad Carnival street parade, in the capital city Port of Spain.

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A man in a fancy costume passes a ticket control gate at Cadiz train station in Spain during the Carnival of Cadiz.

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