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29 March 2024

Crazy World: Best of the craziest

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Myanmar's Thant Zin Oo (L) in action during the placement match. (Reuters)

Visitors look at a sculpture by artist Louis Pratt at the "Sculpture by the Sea" exhibition which runs along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk in Sydney. (AFP)

A "Back to the Future" style DeLorean, powered by methanol bio-fuel made from recycled clothing produced by a Japanese venture, is displayed before hundreds of movie fans on the rooftop of a shopping mall in Tokyo. (AFP)

Nuna8 of Nuon Solar Team Netherlands leaving Coober Pedy as they race on day four of the 2015 World Solar Challenge. (AFP)

A dog named Chica wears a New York Mets shirt and hat outside Citi Field before the start of Game 1 between the Mets and Chicago Cubs in the National League baseball championship series. (AP)

A man sleeps next to automated teller machines (ATM) inside the Argentina's Banco Nacion (national bank) branch across the street from the hotel where presidential candidate Daniel Scioli and Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner were holding a rally in Buenos Aires. (Reuters)

Commuters ride a farm tractor as it maneuvers through strong floodwaters along a highway in La Paz township, Tarlac province in northern Philippines. (AP)

A judge and her dog watch performers during the public tryouts to be named queen of the Pasadena city's famous Doo-Dah Parade in Pasadena, California. (AFP)

A worker looks at an emerald at the workshop of Muzo Emerald Company in Bogota. (AFP)

A baby orangutan clings to a wildlife department official shortly before she puts him into a transportation pen to make the journey back to Sumatra, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Reuters)

Residents sit on the roof of their submerged house due to floodwaters brought on by heavy rains caused by Typhoon Koppu in the town of Santa Rosa, Nueva Ecija. (AFP)

Devotees of the Chinese Jui Tui shrine are seen with spikes piercing their cheeks during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand. (Reuters)

A model checks her mobile phone as she waits backstage at Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kiev. (Reuters)

A truck damaged by gunfire is pictured at the El Aguila ranch, in the municipality of Tamazula, Durango State. (AFP)

A man holds two Japanese Spitz dogs as he sits on a wall in a residential area in Tokyo. (Reuters)

A devotee of the Chinese Samkong Shrine walks with spikes pierced through his cheeks during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand. (Reuters)


A reveller gets ready to dance during a "pow-wow" celebrating the Indigenous Peoples Day Festival in Randalls Island, New York. The festival is held as a counter-celebration to Columbus Day and is to promote Native American culture and history. (Reuters)

An aerial view shows rice plants in the shape of the map of China in a paddy field in Zhonghong village, on the outskirts of Shanghai, China. (Reuters)
 


The reconstructed wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands. Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine by a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board said in its final report on the July 2014 crash that killed all 298 aboard. The long-awaited findings of the board, which was not empowered to address questions of responsibility, did not specify who launched the missile. (Reuters)

Evelyn Buhagiar, of Pacifica, sits next to two pumpkins during the 42nd annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, California. (Reuters)
 

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) watches as Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain celebrates after winning the Russian F1 Grand Prix in Sochi, Russia, (Reuters)