Mar 29, 2011

Odd images from around the world 2011

Odd images from around the world 2011

From a freaky tortoise to a man who is 82 tattoos of actress Julia Roberts to carnival views from around the world...

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Six men ride on a motorcycle after playing cricket at Noida in Uttar Pradesh.


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Revellers participate in the last day of the annual national carnival parade in Santo Domingo.


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Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic displays some of his 82 tattoos of U.S. actress Julia Roberts during a photo-shoot in Valparaiso city. Parserisas, 56, started getting tattoos of the actress after watching her film "Erin Brockovich". The newspaper vendor, who has spent a million pesos ($2500) for the 82 tattoos of the actress inspired by various scenes in the film, plans to get more tattoos of her on his chest, back and arms as long as there is space and he has the money.


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Baboons enjoy the sun in their enclosure at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg.


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A model presents a creation by French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac as part of his Fall-Winter 2011/2012 women's ready-to-wear fashion collection show during Paris Fashion Week. REUTERS


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A taxi driver waits in traffic in his cab decorated for an annual charity appeal, in London. REUTERS


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An African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) with two heads and five legs is displayed in Zilina. The two-headed tortoise, which has been given the two names Magda (left head) and Lenka, is seven weeks old and was born in Slovakia. REUTERS


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A patient (R) watches a broadcast of China's Premier Wen Jiabao delivering his government work report during the opening ceremony of the National People's Congress (NPC), as she receives a traditional Chinese medical treatment to cure cervical spondylosis at a clinic in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. China is on course for another five years of robust growth although inflation threatens social stability and must be tamed, Wen said on Saturday. REUTERS


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A man takes a picture with a painting during an exhibition by the Trick Art Museum of Japan at the National Taiwan Science Education Center in Taipei. The paintings in the exhibition are supposed to induce a 3D optical illusion when a subject takes a picture with it. REUTERS


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An actor performs during a parade at the Barranquilla's carnival in Colombia. REUTERS


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A reveller of the Vila Isabel samba school participates in the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro's Sambadrome. REUTERS


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A general view inside "The Merlion Hotel", an art installation by Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi, in Singapore. The art installation, which is part of the Singapore Biennale, comprises of a luxurious temporary hotel room built around the iconic Singapore landmark, the Merlion (R). It will host overnight guests from April 4 to May 5 at S$150 ($118) a night and will be opened to public in the day during that period. REUTERS


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Children dressed as devils wait at the Malecon (seaside boulevard) to take part in the last day of the annual national carnival in Santo Domingo. REUTERS


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Visitors look at a food exhibit during the 86th traditional Herring Feast at the Grand hotel Union in Ljubljana. Shrove Tuesday marks the end of the traditionally merry and lively Shrovetide carnival and Ash Wednesday signifies the beginning of the forty-day period of Lent as the preparation for the biggest Christian holiday, Easter. REUTERS


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A carnival float with papier-mache figures representing U.S. President Barack Obama encouraging a camel to go through the eye of a needle, is pictured during the Monday carnival parade in the western German city of Cologne. The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf, with their popular floats satirising the year's big news events, are the highlight of the German street carnival season. REUTERS


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Some of thousands of padlocks clipped by lovers onto the railings of the Pont des Arts bridge over the River Seine in Paris are seen on a spring morning in Paris. The Pont Neuf bridge and the Ile de la Cite island in the river Seine can be seen at rear. REUTERS


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