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IN PHOTOS: It's an odd world out there!
We bring you a collection of some of the odd moments from around the world in recent weeks.
German performance artists Wolfram P Kastner (R) and Linus Heilig wearing costumes depicting the pope and Adolf Hitler pose for pictures, to bring attention to a historical agreement between the Vatican and the Third Reich, in Berlin.
Supporters of Pope Benedict's tour of Germany this week spoke out on Wednesday against critics whose complaints about his conservative views, his planned speech to parliamentarians and the visit's cost have dominated the pre-arrival discussion.
The Vatican embassy, his home while in Berlin, and a nearby church in the gritty Neukoelln district were pelted with paint bombs overnight, police said.
Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters
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A man transports used empty plastic cans on a horse cart to a junkyard at Panchkula in Haryana.
Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters
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Visitors look at a sculpture entitled "Man in a Boat" by Australian sculptor Ron Mueck at the San Ildefonso Museum in Mexico City.
Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters
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A performer plays a game on an iPad while waiting for a Beijing opera performance, ahead of the closing ceremony of the 1st young Beijing Opera actors' arena contest in Beijing.
Photograph: Jason Lee/Reuters
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Brooms placed by members of NGO Rio de Paz (Peace Rio) are seen at Copacabana beach as a form of protest in Rio de Janeiro.
A total of 594 brooms, which represent the number of congressmen in the country, were placed at the beach to symbolise the need to 'sweep off' corruption in the Brazilian National Congress.
Photograph: Sergio Moraes/Reuters
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Revellers frolic in grape pulp during the annual grape battle in the village of Binissalem on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Binissalem celebrates its wine tradition with the fiesta every year at the end of the grape harvest.
Photograph: Enrique Calvo/Reuters
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Hideko Kurihara, 79-year-old, exercises with wooden dumbbells during a health promotion event to mark Japan's "Respect for the Aged Day" at a temple in Tokyo.
Many elderly people took part in the event held at Sugamo district, where it is known as "Harajuku for Grannies."
Photograph: Yuriko Nakao/Reuters
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Officials stand next to the carcass of an unidentified whale at Clifton beach in Karachi.
A dead whale was seen washed up on the beach early Tuesday morning and authorities have initiated efforts to remove its carcass, local media reported.
Photograph: Athar Hussain/Reuters
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A woman forcado attempts to stop a calf by grabbing its head during a performance in her hometown arena at Benavente.
This team is the first comprising of only women to take part in the Portuguese bullfight in recent years, an event usually dominated by men.
Wearing traditional stocking caps and red sashes, a forcado jumps on a bleeding bull's head as he charges it, while the seven other team members pile onto the animal until it is immobilised.
Photograph:Jose Manuel Ribeiro
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Anti-government protesters attend from a billboard a mass funeral for protesters and defected army soldiers killed in recent clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen.
Snipers, shelling, and gunfire killed at least five people in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday, violating a truce reached a day earlier between state troops and defected soldiers who joined protesters.
The killings raised the death toll to 75 in four days of bloodshed, shattering a prolonged, uneasy stalemate that was set in place during fitful efforts to mediate the crisis.
Photograph: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters
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A man wears a costume representing a car frame as he runs on the street on World Car Free Day in Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo.
The movement aims to raise awareness of environmental problems caused by the heavy usage of cars in urban areas, and to promote bicycles as a cleaner and more sustainable mode of transport.
Photograph: Nacho Doce/Reuters
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An anti-Gaddafi fighter sits on a Soviet-made SCUD missile with a fellow fighter outside a village near Sirte, one of Muammar Gaddafi's last remaining strongholds.
Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
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A model covers herself with a mask so as not to get hairspray on her face as she gets made up during Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week.
Photograph: Susana Vera/Reuters