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Pancake race, orange fights, ghost-themed polling booth and more: Most offbeat photos of the week

A selection of the strangest, most unusual photos from around the globe

Published: February 16, 2024 15:35 Compiled by Nathaniel Lacsina, Senior Web Editor

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A competitor takes part in the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race at the City of London's Leadenhall Market, in London, Britain. Image Credit: Reuters

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A toy tractor is seen at a road blockade near the town of Breznik, Bulgaria, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. Bulgarian farmers added fuel to their protests on Tuesday by moving heavy farming vehicles from the fields to the main motorways and border crossings, paralyzing traffic and adding to the economic woes of the EU member country. Image Credit: AP

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Participants fall while riding down a slope in a sled during Sunnyfest, an event exhibiting sledges constructed in an original and creative way, in Mamadysh town in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Image Credit: Reuters

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A model walks the runway during the Thom Browne Fall 2024 fashion show at New York Fashion Week, February 14, 2024 in New York City. Image Credit: AFP

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A reveller is hit by oranges during a fight with oranges at an annual carnival battle in Ivrea, Italy, February 11, 2024. Image Credit: Reuters

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John Fox, of San Diego, California, adjust his wife Carla’s tiara during the 33rd Annual Marry Me & Ski for Free Valentine's Day Mountaintop Matrimony ceremony in Loveland Ski Area, Colorado, on February 14, 2024. The Foxes, who have been married for 52 years, traveled from California to renew their vows. The ceremony is part of a Loveland tradition where new couples are joined in matrimony and married couples renew their vows in a mass wedding. Image Credit: AFP

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A visitor films Soft Shuttlecock (1995), by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen during the preview of Signs And Objects. Pop Art From The Guggenheim Collection, featuring works from the art movement that explored the visual language of popular culture, at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, February 15, 2024. Image Credit: Reuters

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Storks walk a field near Sullens, Switzerland, February 9, 2024. Image Credit: Reuters

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An electoral worker at a hantu (ghost) themed general election polling booth, assists a voter with her ballot in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, February 14, 2024. The electoral workers donned the costumes as a creative effort to increase voter participation. Image Credit: Reuters

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Revellers of the 'Bloco da Lama' (Block of Mud) group perform during the carnival festivities, in Paraty, Brazil, February 10, 2024 Image Credit: Reuters

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