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Ten images that show it’s an odd, odd world we live in.
An Indian Muslim devotee on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti for the festival of Urs, performs a stunt during a procession at Ajmer in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan. The annual festival of Urs is held for over six days at Ajmer to commemorate the death anniversary of Sufi saint Chishti. Photograph: Himanshu Sharma/Reuters
Visitors dressed in superhero costumes attend the Paris Comics Expo at the Parc Floral in Paris, France. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters
A devotee is smeared with a vermillion powder while celebrating the "Sindoor Jatra" vermillion powder festival at Thimi, in Bhaktapur, Nepal. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
The world second-oldest gorilla "Fatou" eats from a fruit birthday basket at the Berlin zoo, Germany. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters
Inflatable white rabbits that are part of the art installation 'Intrude' are displayed at Civic Center Plaza in front of San Francisco City Hall in San Francisco, California. Intrude, an installation by Australian artist Amanda Parer, features five 23 foot tall inflatable white rabbits that represent the environmental damage caused by introducing non-native species to new habitats. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
US President Barack Obama blows bubbles during the 2016 White House Science Fair in Washington. The bubble maker was made on a 3D printer by Jacob Leggette, 9, of Baltimore, Maryland. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Suad Keserovic poses as he measures a stone ball in Podubravlje village near Zavidovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Keserovic claimed that the stone sphere is 3.30 meter in diameter and the estimated weight of it is about 35 tons. Hundreds of tourists from around the world have visited this stone. Photograph: Dado Ruvic/Reuters
A snowboarder, wearing a costume of a Russian Interior Ministry officer, falls down in an attempt to cross a pool of water at the foot of a ski slope at the Bobrovy Log ski resort on the suburbs of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Skiers and snowboarders took part in the annual "Gornoluzhnik" amateur event marking the end of the ski season at the Siberian resort. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
A man carrying a girl-shaped balloon figure, rides an escalator at a shopping mall in Beijing, China. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
A carp swims in the Chidorigafuchi moat covered with petals of cherry blossoms in Tokyo, Japan. Photograph: Toru Hanai/Reuters