Pictures of the year: Oddly

A gibbon walks amid models of vehicles at a zoo in a miniatures park in Bakhchisaray, Crimea, May 24, 2021. REmore

Samantha Bailey takes a selfie with a staff member dressed like a raptor at the Jurassic Quest drive-thru Expemore

Pope Francis greets a person dressed as Spider-Man after the general audience at the Vatican, June 23. REUTERSmore

A cow is transported by a helicopter after its summer sojourn in the high Swiss Alpine meadows near the Klausemore

A man waves as volunteers hand out the COVID-19 home test kits to residents, in Goldsworth and St Johns in Wokmore

A man prepares hot dogs at the volcanic site on the Reykjanes Peninsula following an eruption in Iceland, Marcmore

A dog with blue fur is pictured inside a cage at a veterinary hospital where it was taken for examination, in more

Alexandr Kudlay, 33, and Viktoria Pustovitova, 28, have breakfast in their apartment in Kharkiv, Ukraine Marchmore

Fiammetta, 10, attends her online lessons surrounded by her shepherd father's herd of goats in the mountains, more

Participant Norbert Dopf from Austria arrives for the German Moustache and Beard Championships 2021 at Pullmanmore

A hot air balloon floats near birds during the 34th Brazilian hot-air balloon championships in Torres, Rio Gramore

An Ultra Orthodox man wears three masks over his face while celebrating Purim in Jerusalem, February 28. more

Stuttgart Ballet company dancers Elisa Badenes and Friedemann Vogel take part in the performance  "Social Distmore

A lake in a shape of a heart is seen surrounded by autumn-colored trees outside Balashikha, Moscow region, Rusmore

Sand In Your Eye's giant sand art is seen on Blackpool beach following the easing of coronavirus restrictions more

A gallery assistant poses by a sculpture entitled 'Dark Place' by Australian artist Ron Mueck displayed at Thamore

A string quartet plays aboard a violin-shaped boat, titled "Violin of Noah", that was built during the coronavmore

Models interact while they present protective suits made for medical professionals, designed by the Beijing Inmore

Aerial view of 'sea snot', a thick slimy layer of the organic matter also known as marine mucilage, spreading more

Scotland fans gather in Leicester Square before their Euro 2020 match against England, in London, Britain, Junmore

Mr Lordi of the Finnish hard rock band Lordi receives the second dose of COVID-19 vaccination in an event orgamore

A farmer gives a pig a microphone "to sing" on the stage of  The Pork Chop Revue comedy show at the 117th Kentmore

Monster X Mush Rarity, an iconic Harajuku girl and a staff member of the cafe, wearing a face mask poses for amore

A teamLab staff member works inside the "Floating Flower Garden", which consists of a three-dimensional mass omore

An employee attaches the skin to the head of a humanoid robot developed by Promobot service robotics manufactumore

A woman shows matchboxes of micro apples, grown on an apple tree withstanding winter temperatures of -76 degremore

Israel's Linoy Ashram in action during the Rhythmic Gymnastics Individual Ball Final at the 2021 European Rhymore

Brazilian tattoo artist Michel Praddo, also known as Human Satan, and his wife Carol Praddo, known as Mulher Dmore

A man visits 'A Retrospective', an exhibition of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, at the the museum Gropius Bmore

Elena Lenina poses during the screening of the film "Tout s'est bien passe" (Everything Went Fine) in competitmore

People are reflected in a puddle as they watch the sunset in Moscow, Russia, May 27. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

People walk on the world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge '516 Arouca', after it opened for local residemore

A local resident stands on the roof of a wooden building while removing snow, which falls down on pigs in a comore

Puryanti, a 29-year-old woman, and her 15-year-old nephew Raffi, cover themselves from head to toe in silver pmore

A woman wearing a protective face mask carries her pet cat in a backpack as they wait to cross a street in Barmore

Tug of War champion and farmer James Kehoe, of the Boley Tug of War Club, trains at home in his barn with teammore

A fibreglass sculpture entitled 'Bihar' (Tomorrow in Basque), by Mexican hyperrealist artist Ruben Orozco, is more

A Madame Tussauds's wax figure of Audrey Hepburn sits at an empty table to comply with coronavirus social dismore

The Kraken house float, on Memphis Street in Lakeview, one of thousands in the New Orleans area decorated in cmore

People run away as Kurdish animal rights activists release a bear into the wild after rescuing bears from captmore