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24 April 2024

Craziest pictures from around the world

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Hugo, a 63-year-old Galapagos Tortoise, is enticed out of his enclosure with a carrot fed to him by a keeper before his annual weighing at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby near Sydney. (REUTERS)

Once a year Hugo's massive body is carried by four men and a forklift to an industrial scale to assess his health and at 166 kilograms (366 lbs), he weighs one kilogram more than last year. The life expectancy of a Galapagos Tortoise is up to 180 years. (REUTERS)

Hair artist and master barber Rob Ferrel (L), known as "Rob the Original", cuts the likeness of Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi on the head of customer Vincent Hernandez, ahead of tomorrow's World Cup match between Argentina and Switzerland at his barbershop in San Antonio, Texas. (REUTERS)

A layer of foam is seen on the ground as firefighter try control a fire after oil leaked from a China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) pipeline, in Dalian, Liaoning province early morning. (REUTERS)

7-year-old male Asiatic Cheetah, named 'Koushki,' crouches at the Miandasht Wildlife Refuge in Jajarm, northeastern Iran. (AP)

A patient sits outside a hospital building in Changsha, Hunan province. (REUTERS)

The waters off the Hawaii’s largest island are home to a half-million brightly-colored tropic fish that are scooped up into nets each year and flown across the globe into aquariums from Berlin to Boston. (AP)

A visitor watches system of Toyota Motor's new fuel cell vehicle (FCV) on display at the company's showroom in Tokyo. The new model will go on sale in Japanese market with a sticker price of about 7 million yen ($68,690) before April 2015, and preparations are underway for launches in the U.S. and European markets in the summer of 2015. (AP)

Pepsi, a male Pomeranian from Thailand, is groomed during Thailand International Dog Show in Bangkok, Thaialand. (AP)