Pictures of the year: Oddly

Pusha the cat, which adopted four bereaved baby squirrels and currently feeds and lives with them, lies at a lmore

Children react next to a security robot patrolling inside a residential compound in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Chmore

Prince Dudeman (R) and Flofy ride a wave together as they compete at the 14th annual Helen Woodward Animal Cenmore

People enjoy a barbecue as they bath in a hotpot-shaped hot spring filled with fruits and vegetables, at hotelmore

French Army soldiers hold anti-drone guns during the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elmore

A cat disrupts play in the second half between Mexico's Tigres UANL and Real Salt Lake during their Leagues Cumore

An unidentified woman from the audience joins the models for the final walk of the Chanel Spring/Summer 2020 wmore

A pole-dancing robot created by British artist Giles Walker is displayed in the Strip Club Cafe in Nantes, Framore

Employees of the Frieden Burda museum put Banksy's partially shredded artwork "Love is in the bin" in place atmore

Jim, a two-month-old baby gibbon, embraces a teddy bear in a winter enclosure at a zoo in Almaty, Kazakhstan, more

"Chomper," a semi-autonomous, GPS-guided snow blower designed and built by MIT research engineer Dane Kouttronmore

Participants dressed in Spider-Man cosplay costumes run in a creek during an event at the Jiulongjiang Nationamore

Doctors arrange tooth-like structures removed from the mouth of a seven-year-old boy inside a hospital in Chenmore

People dressed as penguins play at a playground on Rose Monday in Cologne, Germany, March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Tmore

Winter swimmers dressed in ballet costumes pose for a photo before diving into the icy water, during a snowfalmore

A BASE jumper leaps from Kuala Lumpur Tower on a hazy day during International Jump Malaysia 2019 in Kuala Lummore

A model presents creations during the University of Westminster MA catwalk show at London Fashion Week Men's imore

Zorica Rebernik, obsessed with the color red, drinks coffee in her house in the village of Breze near Tuzla, Bmore

A woman poses next to a giant balloon of a character from the movie "Madagascar" during the Balloon Day Parademore

A life-sized wooden sculpture of U.S. first lady Melania Trump is officially unveiled in Rozno, near her hometmore

Participants pose as 2,762 people broke the record for most people dressed as Smurfs, outdoing the previous remore

A participant poses before taking part in one of the 17 categories of the international World Beard and Moustamore

Security staff attempt to apprehend a pitch invader as England's Joe Root looks on during their Cricket World more

Ezra Miller poses on the arrivals carpet at the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, May 6more

An artist called "A Gargoyle" takes part in the festival "Statues en Marche" in Marche-en-Famenne, Belgium, Jumore

Participants sit inside coffins during a "living funeral" event as part of a "dying well" program, in Seoul, Smore

Singaporean artist Qixuan Lim sculpts a model of a fetus head using clay and cosmetic paint in Singapore, Octomore

Pigcasso, a rescued pig, paints on a canvas at the Farm Sanctuary in Franschhoek, outside Cape Town, South Afrmore

A boy competes in mutton busting at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, August 13, 2019. REUTERS/Ericmore

A frog is pictured after rain on a lotus leaf in a pond in Lalitpur, Nepal, September 26, 2019. REUTERSmore

Sand whipped up by wind shrouds the C-Space Project Mars simulation base as a staff member wearing a mock spacmore

People eat bananas during a protest against perceived censorship by Poland's National Museum in front of the Nmore

A man walks past a fiberglass sculpture "Untitled 1986", more commonly named "The Headington Shark", which hasmore

An organism dubbed the "blob", a yellowish unicellular living being which looks like a fungus but acts like anmore

Frankie the French mastiff poses while dressed as a lion at the Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade in Manhatmore

Clowns and entertainers gather to attend an annual service of remembrance in honor of British clown Joseph Grimore

Russian blogger and actor Roman Pritula poses for a picture with his "Dogmobile", which was created on the plamore

Congressional staffers load in Max the Moose into the office of Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), before the 10thmore

A booth for Flash Drive for Freedom is seen at the Austin Convention Center during the South by Southwest confmore

A model presents a creation during the "On/Off Presents..." A/W19 show at London Fashion Week, February 19, 20more

A newly born albino red-necked wallaby joey is carried by its mother in their enclosure at the zoo in Decin, Cmore

A woman holds up what the Chris Steaks & Burgers restaurant says is Thailand's biggest burger, weighing more tmore

A reveler lies in tomato pulp during the annual "La Tomatina" tomato food fight festival in Bunol, near Valencmore

Police officers hold a revolver as they offer prayers to their weapons as part of a ritual at their headquartemore

People bathe in a decommissioned city bus named "le bus piscine", an artwork by French artist Benedetto Bufalimore

Jared Leto arrives at the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, May 6, 2019. REUTERmore

A robot wearing a nurse costume carries medical documents at Mongkutwattana General Hospital in Bangkok, Thailmore

Taisto Miettinen and Katja Kovanen from Finland compete to finish second in the Wife Carrying World Championshmore

LiLou the therapy pig stands in front of a departures board at San Francisco International Airport in Californmore

Rolf Buchholz of Germany, who holds the Guinness World Record with 453 piercings, poses during the 2019 Internmore