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19 March 2024

Offbeat images from round the world

An antique car is seen on top of a post at an auto dealer in West Branch, Iowa, March 6, 2015. Iowa, the American heartland. Endless farm fields and quiet towns. 56,273 square miles that are soon to become the focus of the nation as the long process of electing the next U.S. president begins. (Reuters)

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Portuguese palaeontologist Octavio Mateus codes fossil remains of a prehistoric species named "Metoposaurus Algarvensis" at the Lourinha dinosaurs museum, in Lourinha, Portugal, Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Researchers have found fossil remains of a previously unknown species of crocodile-like "super salamander" that was a top predator more than 200 million years ago and grew as long as a small car. (AP)


Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei walks near a playground outside a shopping mall in Beijing Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Amnesty International awarded its top honor Tuesday to Ai Weiwei, who has spent years shining light on his country's restrictive political atmosphere, and to U.S. folk singer Joan Baez for her civil rights activism. (AP)


Tseng Ying Chen, of Pingtung County, Taiwan, performs onstage during the costume competition at the World Clown Association Convention in Reno, Nev., on Monday March 23, 2015. Clowns came from all over the world to compete for the honor of being the named the top all around clown in the world. (AP)
 

In this image  made available by the University of Edinburgh on Tuesday March 24, 2015  lead researcher Steve Brusatte  brushes off one of the salamander bones at the dig site near Loule in southern Portugal in June 2010. Researchers have found fossil remains of a previously unknown species of crocodile-like "super salamander" that roamed the Earth more than 200 million years ago. University of Edinburgh researchers say the species discovered in Portugal was among the Earth's top predators.  (AP)


People make photos with US Army soldiers as a group of US Army Stryker armored vehicles from the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment stop on the Kosciuszko Market Square to meet residents, in Bialystok, Poland, Tuesday, March 24, 2015, on the squadron's drive back from the Atlantic Resolve exercise. The "Dragoon Ride" convoy, designed to show NATO's readiness to defend its members, started last week from Estonia and passed through Latvia and Lithuania before entering Poland on its way to the base in Germany. (AP)
 

Kritsana Khamkong, left, from Thailand, waits backstage with helper Karen Eskilson, of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada, during the costume competition at the World Clown Association Convention in Reno, Nev., Monday March 23, 2015. Clowns came from all over the world to compete for the honor of being the named the top all-around clown in the world. (AP)