By David Sim Published 14 December 2017, 3:25 PM GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket 19 January 2017: Cossacks help a boy to take a dip in the icy waters of a frozen lake during the celebration of the Epiphany holiday near the village of Leninskoe in Kyrgyzstan Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP 18 October 2017: Anfisa, a 12-year-old female chimpanzee, picks her nose at the Royev Ruchey Zoo in a suburb of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia Ilya Naymushin/Reuters 17 May 2017: House Democrats set up a photo of President Donald Trump welcoming Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to the White House, during a news conference at the US Capitol Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images 25 November 2017: France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga reacts during a doubles tennis match against Belgium at the Davis Cup World Group final in Lille Philippe Huguen/AFP 12 September 2017: Olympiakos' Filipe Pardo celebrates scoring their second goal in their Champions League match against Sporting CP at Karaiskakis Stadium, Piraeus, Greece Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters 16 May 2017" Manchester City's Pablo Zabaleta gets final instructions from manager Pep Guardiola as he comes on as a substitute during a match against West Bromwich Albion at the Etihad Stadium Anthony Devlin/AFP 13 August 2017: Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates scoring their second goal during their Spanish Super Cup First Leg match against Barcelona. He was later booked for removing his shirt Juan Medina/Reuters 29 March 2017: A bust of Cristiano Ronaldo is seen before the ceremony to rename Funchal Airport as Cristiano Ronaldo Airport in Madeira, Portugal Rafael Marchante/Reuters 14 September 2017: Dummies and prosthetics are displayed during an open evening at the Artem special effects workshop in Greenford, west London Jack Taylor/Getty Images 13 December 2017: A man dressed as a panda rests and smokes in between posing for pictures with tourists in central Kiev, Ukraine Gleb Garanich/Reuters 27 October 2017: A visitor wearing a T-Rex costume uses the toilet at the London Comic Con, at the ExCel exhibition centre in east London Peter Nicholls/Reuters 5 June 2017: Boys' clothes balloon around them as they swim in a stream during a heatwave in Islamabad, Pakistan Caren Firouz/Reuters 13 September 2017: A driver is disguised as a car seat during a Ford and Virginia Tech experiment to test pedestrian reactions to self-driving cars Ford Motor Company/Reuters 23 March 2017: US President Donald Trump sits in the driver's seat of a truck as he welcomes truckers and CEOs to the White House to discuss healthcare. Jim Watson/AFP 9 May 2017: Montenegro's Slavko Kalezic performs during the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 Semi-Final 1 at the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine Gleb Garanich/Reuters 8 August 2017: A giant panda named Xing Ya flips over his birthday ice cake made for his fourth birthday at the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, the Netherlands Michael Kooren/Reuters 10 October 2017: Cast members perform during a rehearsal of Hair at The Vaults theatre in London Hannah McKay/Reuters 9 March 2017: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May attends a news conference during the EU Summit in Brussels, Belgium Dylan Martinez/Reuters 19 October 2017: Former US President George W Bush is presented with a Cadets' Sword as he is honoured with the Sylvanus Thayer Award at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York Brendan McDermid/Reuters 1 February 2017: US President Donald Trump pulls a chair out for Paula White from the New Christian Destiny Centre as they attend a meeting regarding the supreme court nomination at the Roosevelt room of the White House in Washington, DC Carlos Barria/Reuters 10 June 2017: A man wears a mask depicting US President Donald Trump during the World Naked Bike Ride in Mexico City Ginnette Riquelme/Reuters 2 February 2017: Palestinian barber Ramadan Odwan styles and straightens the hair of a customer with fire at his salon in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters 19 April 2017: A child reacts after having his head shaved by Buddhist monks during a ceremony entitled 'Children Becoming Buddhist Monks', at the Jogye temple in Seoul Jung Yeon-Je/AFP 24 February 2017: A 14-week-old polar bear plays at the Hellabrunn zoo in the southern German city of Munich Guenther Schiffmann/AFP 9 December 2017: A swimmer dresses after emerging from an open-air swim in near freezing temperatures in the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, London Peter Nicholls/Reuters 13 January 2017: A block of ice with a fox encased in it is seen on the banks of the river Danube in Fridingen, southern Germany. The fox fell through thin ice on the river and drowned and was later cut out of the ice by a hunter Johannes Stehle/AFP 7 September 2017: Thousands of recovered bicycles from various sharing services are seen in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China Reuters 14 February 2017: Young alpacas Romeo and Juliette, walk inside their open air enclosure at the Roev Ruchey Zoo in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, after they "were married" on Valentine's Day Ilya Naymushin/Reuters 18 April 2017: California "weed nun" Christine Meeusen, 57, and India Delgado, who goes by the name Sister Eevee, smoke a joint at Sisters of the Valley near Merced, California Lucy Nicholson/Reuters 10 March 2017: A Standard Poodle jumps up as it is shown during the second day of the Crufts Dog Show in Birmingham Darren Staples/Reuters 25 August 2017: Eddie Ladd and Gwyn Emberton perform as Dylan and Caitlin Thomas in 'Caitlin' at the Lauriston Hall, Edinburgh Mary Turner/Reuters 14 August 2017: Pigs are herded off a platform into water by breeders during a daily exercise at a pig farm in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China Reuters 8 January 2017: Snow coats a statue in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin John MacDougall/AFP 1 October 2017: A competitor smiles as he makes his way through a pool of muddy water during the McVities Jaffa Cakes Mud Madness race in association with Marie Curie at Foymore Lodge in Portadown, Northern Ireland Charles McQuillan/Getty Images for McVities Northern Ireland 26 August 2017: A cosplayer dressed in Power Armour from the Fallout game series attends London Super Comic Convention at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London Tolga Akmen/AFP 5 August 2017: A streaker is chased by a steward after invading the track at the World Athletics Championships in London Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters Performers painted to look like tigers dance during festivities marking the start of the annual harvest festival of Onam in Kochi Sivaram V/Reuters 15 March 2017: A dinosaur robot acting as a receptionist demonstrates how to check-in to the hotel during a press preview for the newly-opening Henn na Hotel Maihama Tokyo Bay in Urayasu, east of Tokyo, Japan Issei Kato/Reuters 30 August 2017: Maurizio Cattelan's America, a fully functional solid gold toilet, is seen at The Guggenheim Museum in New York City Brendan McDermid/Reuters 19 February 2017: A boy takes selfies with Pope Francis during a visit at the parish of St. Mary Josefa of the Heart of Jesus in Rome Remo Casilli/Reuters 6 December 2017: The Queen meets George Adesola Oguntade, High Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and his wife during a private audience at Buckingham Palace in London Victoria Jones 1 November 2017: An installation is seen outside Banksy's Walled Off Hotel in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, ahead of the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration Mussa Qawasma/Reuters 23 November 2017: People take photos of the Pillsbury Dough Boy balloon as it makes its way through Manhattan during the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Carlo Allegri/Reuters 10 May 2017: The Pink Floyd inflatable pig floats next to Broadcasting House in London to promote their new exhibition at the V&A museum Neil Hall/Reuters 19 November 2017: Members of the Tornadoes motorcycle display team of the Indian Army Service Corps set a world record in Bangalore by carrying 58 men on a 500cc motorcycle Manjunath Kiran/AFP 8 May 2017: Reza Parastesh, an Iranian Lionel Messi lookalike, poses for a picture on a street in Tehran Atta Kenare/AFP 5 October 2017: A giant inflatable rubber duck made by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman is seen in the port of Valparaiso, Chile Rodrigo Garrido/Reuters 11 September 2017: Australian artist Scott Marsh completes a mural featuring former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott marrying himself in a wedding dress in the Sydney suburb of Redfern AAP/Dean Lewins/Reuters 30 August 2017: Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) staff back away from a black rhino calf that appeared to wake up from a sedative as it was being tagged to ease quick identification during anti-poaching patrols at the Nairobi National Park Tony Karumba/AFP 24 August 2017: Gorillas sit next to a ruler during the annual weigh-in at London Zoo Neil Hall/Reuters 17 August 2017: A police officer guides revellers taking part in the Eurofurence convention parade in Berlin. Some 2,700 delegates are taking part in the three-day-long convention for people who like to dress up in furry costumes Odd Andersen/AFP 7 August 2017: Edinburgh Festival Fringe entertainers perform on the Royal Mile in the Scottish capital Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images 24 July 2017: People dressed as Father Christmas take a canal tour of Copenhagen as they take part in the annual World Santa Claus Congress in Denmark Scanpix Denmark/Nikolai Linares/Reuters 20 July 2017: Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gestures at a humanoid robot at the Research Institute for Science and Engineering at Waseda University's Kikuicho Campus in Tokyo Eugene Hoshiko/Reuters 19 July 2017: A two-month-old unnamed male baby elephant chases a bird at the Africam Safari Zoo in Puebla, Mexico Edgard Garrido/Reuters 12 June 2017: Prince Harry hosts a reception to mark the 40th anniversary of the children's charity WellChild at Buckingham Palace Jonathan Brady 14 June 2017: A dog feeds four newborn tiger cubs and a puppy at Xixiakou Wild Animal Protection Zone in Rongcheng, Shandong province, China Reuters 11 June 2017: A Babyclon Animatronic baby has its batteries recharged at the Bilbao Reborn Doll Show in northern Spain Vincent West/Reuters 8 June 2017: Camilla jokingly knights actor Callum Arnott with a leek during the 50th South of England Show in Ardingly, West Sussex Arthur Edwards 5 June 2017: A Greenpeace activist wearing a mask of US President Donald Trump protests against his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, in front of the US embassy in Prague, Czech Republic David W Cerny/Reuters 3 June 2017: A demonstrator holds up a sign of Vladimir Putin wearing a 'Make America great again' cap during an anti-Trump in New York Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images 25 January 2017: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, impersonated by Hong Kong actor Howard (L), and US President Donald Trump, impersonated by US actor Dennis, pose outside the US consulate in Hong Kong Anthony Wallace/AFP 11 May 2017: A mural signed by TV Boy and depicting Pope Francis and US President Donald Trump kissing, is seen on a wall in Rome Tony Gentile/Reuters 10 May 2017: Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a gala ice hockey match at the Shayba Olympic Arena in Sochi Yuri Kochetkov/AFP 12 May 2017: Frankie Gavin and Renald Garrido weigh in for their fight at Rotunda Square in Birmingham Peter Cziborra/Reuters A visitor feeds a food pellet to a giraffe in the Giraffe Centre in Nairobi, Kenya Goran Tomasevic/Reuters 27 January 2017: Sumo's grand champion, Kisenosato performs a ring-entering ceremony at Meiji shrine in Tokyo Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP 12 February 2017: Drag queen Olivia Jones, who is a member of the Federal Assembly, greets German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the election of the new president of Germany by the Federal Assembly at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany Sean Gallup/Getty Images 22 February 2017: Members of the Bald Men Club, take part in a unique game of tug-of-war by attaching suction pads onto their heads, at a hot spring facility in Tsuruta town, Aomori prefecture, Japan Megumi Lim/Reuters 6 March 2017: Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams drinks from a bottle as he walks past a portrait of the late Ian Paisley at Stormont in Belfast, Northern Ireland Charles McQuillan/Getty Images 4 April 2017: A man carries his pet cat as he walks under the cherry blossoms at Tongji University in Shanghai Aly Song/Reuters 3 April 2017: Farmers from the southern state of Tamil Nadu pose half shaved during a protest demanding a drought-relief package from the federal government, in New Delhi, India Cathal McNaughton/Reuters 30 March 2017: George Lewys, age 5, poses with two Forest Giant Owl butterflies (Caligo eurilochus) at the Natural History Museum's Butterfly House Jack Taylor/Getty Images 13 March 2017; British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves after attending a Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey in London Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP 26 April 2017:A gust of wind blows Pope Francis' mantle during his Wednesday general audience in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican, Rome, Italy Tony Gentile/Reuters 30 April 2017: Mercedes' Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas celebrates on the podium after winning the Formula One Russian Grand Prix at the Sochi Autodrom circuit Andrej Isakovic/AFP 8 May 2017: Nurses practice smiling with chopsticks in their mouths at a hospital in Handan, Hebei province, China Reuters 27 January 2017: The Queen reacts as she meets a man dressed in traditional costume as she arrives to view an exhibition on Fiji at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia in Norwich Chris Jackson/Getty Images Nermin Halilagic, 38, poses with kitchen utensils in Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 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