Odd Things Around The World

Odd Things Around The World:

Six men ride on a motorcycle after playing cricket at Noida in Uttar Pradesh.

Revellers participate in the last day of the annual national carnival parade in Santo Domingo.

Miljenko Parserisas Bukovic displays some of his 82 tattoos of U.S. actress Julia Roberts during a photo-shoot in Valparaiso city. Parserisas, 56, started getting tattoos of the actress after watching her film “Erin Brockovich”. The newspaper vendor, who has spent a million pesos ($2500) for the 82 tattoos of the actress inspired by various scenes in the film, plans to get more tattoos of her on his chest, back and arms as long as there is space and he has the money.

Baboons enjoy the sun in their enclosure at the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg.

A taxi driver waits in traffic in his cab decorated for an annual charity appeal, in London.

An African spurred tortoise (Geochelone sulcata) with two heads and five legs is displayed in Zilina. The two-headed tortoise, which has been given the two names Magda (left head) and Lenka, is seven weeks old and was born in Slovakia.

A patient (R) watches a broadcast of China’s Premier Wen Jiabao delivering his government work report during the opening ceremony of the National People’s Congress (NPC), as she receives a traditional Chinese medical treatment to cure cervical spondylosis at a clinic in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. China is on course for another five years of robust growth although inflation threatens social stability and must be tamed, Wen said on Saturday.

A man takes a picture with a painting during an exhibition by the Trick Art Museum of Japan at the National Taiwan Science Education Center in Taipei. The paintings in the exhibition are supposed to induce a 3D optical illusion when a subject takes a picture with it.