World in Pictures: Crazy but true...

Akis Andreou (top), 38, and fellow stuntman Akis Koutsoudakis perform acrobatics in the "Wall of Death", a barrel-shaped wooden structure in Athens. (REUTERS)

Bangladesh's garment factory owners are pencilling in a minimum wage increase of about 50 to 80 percent and will ask retailers to pay more to defray the cost, as the government tries to end a wave of strikes that hit nearly a fifth of workshops. (REUTERS)

Students carry a volleyball using their foreheads in a game aimed at improving cooperation at a campus in Wuhan. (REUTERS)

A couple on a horse carriage, wave to the camera on the way to their wedding ceremony in Xi'an, Shaanxi province. (REUTERS)

Tourists visit the Badaling section of the Great Wall in late autumn Beijing. (REUTERS)

Riot police officers attend a training session ahead of demonstrations in central Phnom Penh. (REUTERS)

Participants ride horses as they fight for a slaughtered goat during a Buzkashi event in Yuli county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. (REUTERS)

Residents prepare to transport the coffin of a victim who was killed in a bomb attack, during a funeral in Baghdad's Amil district. A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up outside a cafe in a mainly Shi'ite Muslim district of the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 38 people, police and medics said. (REUTERS)

A cow sticks its tongue out while being fed at a feedlot in Santa Lucia, some 200 km (124 miles) northeast of Buenos Aires. (REUTERS)

Children dance at the Cathedral of Los Angeles, California during the annual festival honoring the patron Saint Peru. (AFP)

Thai custom officials display confiscated animal skulls and horns during a press conference at the customs offices in Bangkok. (AFP)

Cars for export park at a port in Kawasaki, southwest of Tokyo. (AP)

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