Welcome to the home of strange! 10 odd photos from across the world

These photos prove we live in an odd, odd world!

A six-year-old acrobat performs on the opening of a tourist festival in Bozhou, Anhui province, China. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

Waiters compete during the first waiters race event in Riga, Latvia. Photograph: Ints Kalnins/Reuters

A visitor poses for a photo with a Crayon Shin-chan model during an exhibition at JoyCity in Beijing. The exhibition, which showcased fifty models of the Japanese cartoon character in different poses and expressions, will run from April 18 to June 22. Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters

A group of 1,000 customers receive a facial massage at a sports centre in Jinan, Shandong province, China. A group of 1,000 women were given a 30 minutes facial beauty treatment together on Monday that achieved a Guinness record for the largest group of people having beauty treatment in the same location, according to local media. Photograph: Reuters

Riders race with their donkeys during the annual donkey festival in Otumba, near Mexico City. Villagers from Otumba honour the donkey with this festival, which includes donkey races, donkey rodeos and the best-costumed donkey competition. Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters

A woman dressed as a witch poses during a casting session for the Filmpark Babelsberg theme park in Potsdam, Germany. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters

A lion and its trainer perform during ‘Stars and starlets’, a new programme, at the National Circus in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Photograph: Gleb Garanich/Reuters

A trader wears an Iron Man mask on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on the day that cast members of the film Avengers: Age of Ultron visit the exchange in New York. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

A young girl sits in a remote controlled car as it is driven past vehicles being used by Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband outside an election campaign event in Stockton-on -Tees in northern England. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Cosplayers dressed up as Star Wars characters Scout Trooper, Storm Trooper and Darth Vader to take part in a Star Wars Day fan event in Tokyo. Star Wars fans celebrate May 4 as Star Wars Day, a pun that comes from an iconic quote in the movie, ‘May the Force be with you’. Photograph: Toru Hanai/Reuters