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19 March 2024

In Pictures: When the world goes crazy

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Fighters Vivian "The Valkyrie" Voss (L) and Feather "The Hammer" Hadden pose during a training session for the upcoming "Lingerie Fighting Championships 20: A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the FSW Gym. (AFP/Getty)

Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) under construction in Pingtang, southwest China's Guizhou province. (AFP)

Floodwaters stall a car at the intersection of East 77th Street and Sioux Trail in the Arrowhead Estates development of Indianapolis. (AP)

Eiffel Tower behind a bus from Senegal also called "car rapide" (fast bus) being lifted by a crane to the Musee de l'Homme (Museum of Mankind) where it will be exposed, in Paris. The Musee de l'Homme will re-open in October 2015, after years of restoration work. (AFP)

A dog population management program to the Government of Bhutan during a closing ceremony held. (AP)

People ride in the back of a pick up truck during the second day of a suspension of public transport services in Apopa, El Salvador. (Reuters)

Egyptian boys play at El-Moez Street in historical Fatimid Cairo, Egypt. (AP)

A woman clad in her self-made mermaid costume swimming in a pool in China's southwest Chongqing municipality. (AFP) 

Russia's Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina perform during the synchronised swimming duet free preliminary at the Swimming World Championships in Kazan, Russia. (AP)

A security guard looks on outside a panda enclosure building where giant 37-year-old panda Jia Jia is housed at an amusement park in Hong Kong. (AFP)

Giant panda Jia Jia eats beside a birthday cake made from ice and vegetables as she celebrates her 37-year-old birthday at the Hong Kong Ocean Park, China. (Reuters)

Giant panda Jia Jia eats beside a birthday cake made from ice and vegetables as she celebrates her 37-year-old birthday at the Hong Kong Ocean Park, China. (Reuters)

Spanish bullfighter Lorenzo Sanchez is gored by a Arauz de Robles's ranch fighting bull during a bullfight at Las Ventas bullring in Madrid, Spain. (AP)

Two fire fighting helicopters pass near each other over Willow Creek Canyon as a wildfire continues burning in the Sierra near Bass Lake. (AP)

A woman pushes her Fiat 500 car as her dog sits inside, in a neighbourhood of Rome. (Reuters)

Workers make adjustments to surveillance cameras on a lighting pole in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (AFP)

A man rides a improvised bicycle, which can travel through water, at a flooded street after heavy rainfall hit Wuhan, Hubei province, China. (Reuters)

Staff exhaling vapour while demonstrating their electronic cigarette products at the Beijing International Vapor Distribution Alliance Expo. (AFP)

A dead camel in the middle of a road after a car hit the stray animal in the desert in the southwestern region of Jazan, resulting in the death of four members of a Saudi family on the spot, while their three sons suffered serious injuries, the Red Crescent said. (AFP)

 

A man and his dog bath in the Arges river in Adunatii Copaceni village next to Bucharest during a hot summer day. (AFP)

A dog participates in a dog costume contest in Santa Ana, El Salvador. (AFP)