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Here is your weekly digest of the odd moments from around the world.
People walk outside an upside-down house in a tourist complex, near the village of Dukora, Belarus, December 2, 2015. Inside the house, all objects are set up upside-down in order to create a special perspective for the visitors. Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
A Peer 1 client wears a "therapeutic benefit" paper hat he made to remind himself of his bad attitude and to show his willingness to ask his Peer 1 brothers for support at Peer 1, a Therapeutic Community in Denver. Peer 1 is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation programme for men, many having spent years in and out of prison, in Denver, Colorado. The men have often tried and failed over and over to turn their life around. With histories of abuse as children and living on the streets, they come to Peer 1 hoping to turn away from addiction and crime, to rebuild their lives and learn how to integrate into society. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters
University students create an image of Marilyn Monroe by clearing snow on a soccer pitch, in Changchun, Jilin province, China. Photograph: Reuters
A woman, dressed as Santa Claus, takes a curve during a promotional event on the opening weekend in the alpine ski resort of Verbier, Switzerland, December 6. Skiers dressed as Santa Claus were granted free access to the resort on the day of Saint-Nicolas. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
A building with half Chinese temple and half western architecture is under construction in a new studio park on December 3, 2015 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province of China. A complex building mixed three-story China's Hall of Prayer for Good Harvest as its north part and a four-story western architecture as its south part was built in a new studio park which also contained replicas of Egyptian Sphinx, French Louvre Pyramid and some Chinese ancient buildings in Shijiazhuang. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
Tian Jiashi puts a live spider into his mouth in Changchun, Jilin Province of China. 33-year-old dancing teacher Tian Jiashi has been fascinated and fed scorpions, vipers, centipedes, lizards and spiders at home for seven years in Changchun. Tian sometimes performed swallowing these poisonous creatures onstage even being bit for hundreds of times. Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
Farmers wash carrots on a polluted stream during harvest season at a farm on the outskirts of Faisalabad, Pakistan. Photograph: Fayyaz Hussain/Reuters
An attendee in "fursuit" costume looks at her phone at the Midwest FurFest in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois, United States, December 4, 2015. Over 5000 people gathered to follow the Furry Fandom based on anthropomorphic animals, animated cartoon characters with human characteristics, or "Furries". Photograph: Jim Young/Reuters
A staff member (right) looks on next to a cake, which was baked in the shape of a muscular man, for customers to try for free during a promotional event of a cake store in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China, December 6, 2015. Photograph: Reuters
Cosplayers dressed as characters from the Star Wars movie series visit patients during a charity event organised by non-profit group 501st Legion, at East Avenue Medical Centre in Quezon city, metro Manila December 6, 2015. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters