Right place, right time: The world’s strangest pictures of the year
Face smashes, hair whips, three legs and funny faces: Here are some of the strangest pictures in the news from around the world this year.
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- Third-placed Italy’s Christof Innerhofer (2nd R) does a somersault on the podium as winner Switzerland’s Sandro Viletta (2nd L) and second-placed Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic (L) laugh after the men’s alpine skiing super combined event at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center in this February 14, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/Files
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- Snowboarders prepare to compete in the Bikini & Board Shorts Downhill at Crystal Mountain, a ski resort near Enumclaw, Washington in this April 19, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/David Ryder/Files
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- Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark hits a return to Naomi Broady of Britain during their women’s singles tennis match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London, in this June 25, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/Files
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- Spectators take photographs of Rafael Nadal of Spain as he changes his shirt during his men’s singles tennis match against Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, in London, in this June 26, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Max Rossi/Files
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- Mahindra Moto3 rider Bryan Schouten of the Netherlands fights with compatriot Kalex KTM Moto3 rider Scott Deroue (R) after they crashed during the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring circuit in the eastern German town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal, in this July 13, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/Files
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- Race leader Astana team rider Vincenzo Nibali of Italy pushes away a spectator as he cycles to win the 145.5km 18th stage of the Tour de France cycling race between Pau and Hautacam, in this July 24, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/Files
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- Participants climb over a wall at the “Tough Mudder” endurance event series in Arnsberg in this September 6, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender/Files
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- A dog surfs at the 6th Annual Surf City surf dog contest in Huntington Beach, California in this September 28, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files
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- Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu reacts in the “kiss and cry” area during the Figure Skating Men’s Short Program at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, in this February 13, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files
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- German pianist Stefan Aaron plays an orange piano on a “flying carpet” platform suspended from a helicopter, over the Munich airport in this July 23, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Lukas Barth/Files
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- Newborn giant panda triplets, which were born to giant panda Juxiao (not pictured), are seen inside an incubator at the Chimelong Safari Park in Guangzhou, Guangdong province in this August 17, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/Files
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- A radio-controlled flying witch makes a test flight past a moon setting into clouds along the pacific ocean in Carlsbad, California in this October 8, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Mike Blake/Files
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- Zheng Feng, an amateur climber takes wedding pictures with his bride on a cliff in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, in this October 26, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/China Daily/Files
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- Eventual winners Jesse Wall carries Christina Arsenault through the water pit while competing in the North American Wife Carrying Championship at Sunday River ski resort in Newry, Maine in this October 11, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/Files
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- Two women wearing nun outfits drink beer while watching the playoff draw between Quebec and Manitoba at the 2014 Tim Hortons Brier curling championships in Kamloops, British Columbia in this March 8, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Ben Nelms/Files
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- A suspected illegal construction is seen covered by green plants atop a 19-storey residential building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province in this April 11, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/China Daily/Files
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- A firefighter holds a red panda (Ailurus fulgens) from its tail while removing it from a tree at a residential area in Kunming, Yunnan province, in this July 3, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/Files
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- A girl wearing a faeces-shaped hat prepares to slide down into a five-metre (16.4-ft) toilet at an exhibition titled “Toilet !? Human Waste and Earth’s Future” at the Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo in this July 3, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Issei Kato/Files
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- A cow is prepared for the Miss Milk Cow beauty contest in Moc Chau plateau, 200 km northwest of Hanoi in this October 15, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Kham/Files
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- Artist Pyotr Pavlensky sits on the wall enclosing the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry after he cut off a part of his earlobe during his protest action titled “Segregation” in Moscow in this October 19, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev/Files
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- A Ka’apor Indian warrior (L) chases a logger who tried to escape after he was captured during a jungle expedition to search for and expel loggers from the Alto Turiacu Indian territory, near the Centro do Guilherme municipality in the northeast of Maranhao state in the Amazon basin, in this August 7, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Lunae Parracho/Files
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- Resident Chris Roland walks his pet turtles Cindy (L) and Kuka up Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side of the Manhattan borough of New York in this September 4, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/Files
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- A participant in costume eats a sandwich after a Halloween parade in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo, in this October 26, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Yuya Shino/Files
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- A male red deer with antlers covered in bracken, walks through undergrowth in Richmond Park in south west London, in this October 3, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Files
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- A man dressed as comic book hero Batman waves at patient Mariana, 2, and her mother at Hospital Infantil Sabara in Sao Paulo in this October 7, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/Files
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- A camel herder walks his camels at Pushkar Fair in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan in this October 28, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Himanshu Sharma/Files
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- A woman walks her child to school as he is dressed as a character from Minecraft in New York in this October 31, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/Files
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- Folk artist Yu Guangjun attaches the legs from a cicada slough onto a magnolia bud as he makes a “Maohou” in his house in Beijing in this September 2, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/Files
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- U.S. President Barack Obama greets a man wearing a horse mask during a walkabout in Denver in this July 8, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/Files
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- Hungarian wrestlers fight during the Hungarian wrestling Championship in Budapest in this November 29, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh/Files
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- European Ryder Cup player Martin Kaymer (L) kicks his ball as he walks with teammates Rory McIlroy (C) and Sergio Garcia along the seventh fairway during practice ahead of the 2014 Ryder Cup at Gleneagles in Scotland in this September 23, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne/Files
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- A streaker runs across the pitch as a security guard prepares to tackle him during the Asian Champions League final first-leg soccer match between Australia’s Western Sydney Wanderers and Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal at Parramatta Stadium in Sydney in this October 25, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Jason Reed/Files
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- Four out of five Olympic rings are seen lit up during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, in this February 7, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/David Gray/Files
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- Olympic officials who maintain the ice jump out of the way as China’s Kexin Fan crashes out into the barrier in the women’s 500 metres short track speed skating semifinal event at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in this February 13, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/David Gray/Files
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- A female bodybuilder apples oil to another performer backstage before an amateur competition in the Israeli city of Dimona, in this April 3, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly/Files
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- Jockey Samuel Cudjoe (1) runs his goat Bright Spark over the finish line to win the Class C2 Classic 100 metre race during the Carnbee/Mt Pleasant Community Council’s 42nd annual sports meeting at the Mt Pleasant recreation ground, on Tobago island, in this April 21, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva/Files
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- Taiwan’s Chang Wei-Lin competes during the men’s 10,000m race walk at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in this August 24, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Aly Song/Files
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- San Antonio Spurs fans taunt Miami Heat’s LeBron James during the third quarter in Game 2 of their NBA Finals basketball series in San Antonio, Texas, in this June 8, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Mike Stone/Files
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- A hat that blew onto the field, is blown off the head of Australia’s Chris Rogers after he put it on during the first day of the fourth Ashes cricket test against England, at the Melbourne cricket ground, in this December 26, 2013 file photo. REUTERS/David Gray/Files
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- A volunteer pushes Switzerland’s goaltender Sophie Anthamatten in a trolley as she leaves the Shayba Arena following a practice session ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, in this February 6, 2014 file photo. REUTERS/Phil Noble/Files
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Dec 19, 2014 @ 06:01:54
I like number 2– Adidas and Nike walking together. Perhaps not great friends but still showing that we can bridge often insurmountable gap that keeps us apart. If these two from opposing camps can find a way to walk together, perhaps there’s hope for all of us!