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Ten photographs from around the world that show we live in an odd world.
Women wearing no pants pose for photographs during a promotional event at a ski resort to echo the ‘No Pants Subway Ride’ event, in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province. Photograph: Reuters
Students practice antigravity yoga at a training room in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The use of hammocks help practisers to release pressure from their spines and reshape their bodies, according to local media reports. Photograph: Reuters
Su Daocheng rides his home-made mechanical horse vehicle on a street in Shiyan, Hubei province. Su spent 2 months making this 1.5 metre high and 2 metre long horse, which weighed 250 kilograms with 4 legs and 2 supportive wheels. Photograph: Reuters
A visitor poses for a photograph in front of a 3D painting depicting US President Barack Obama and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at a 3D art gallery in Beijing. The gallery attracts visitors with various 3D paintings and installations depicting world famous political leaders, celebrities and movie scenes. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
Performers take part in a parade during the 2015 Discover Thainess campaign in Bangkok. The event was held to promote tourism in Thailand. Photograph: Chaiwat Subprasom/Reuters
Residents sunbathe in snow covered Jizeen, southern Lebanon. Photograph: Ali Hashisho/Reuters
A man bites a trout during an event promoting the Ice Festival on a frozen river in Hwacheon, about 20 km south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas,. The annual ice festival, which is one of the most famous and biggest festivals in South Korea, expects to see more than 1,000,000 people attend. Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
Couples pose for their wedding photographs after a group wedding ceremony which was held as part of the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in the northern city of Harbin, Heilongjiang province. The wedding ceremony was organised by the city government and 11 couples from China, Russia and Egypt participated in the ceremony. Photograph: Reuters
A Mercedes-Benz decorated with more than 300,000 Swarovski crystals is on display at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2015 at Makuhari Messe in Japan. It is priced at approximately $835,000. Photograph: Keith Tsuji/Getty Images
People look on as a car balances on the edge of a caved-in area on a street in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. A car was stranded when the cave-in, measuring approximately 25-square-metres, occurred. Photograph: Reuters