Snake charmer Sajal Biswas, 35, puts the head of a cobra into his mouth on a roadside in Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura August 8, 2007.
A piglet swims during a performance at a park in Hefei, east China's Anhui province, on National Day October 1, 2007.
A soldier from the Centro de Operaciones Especiales (special force unit), also known as the COE, takes part in a military training exercise at a military base near Managua, Nicaragua, October 20, 2007.
A promotional installation of Mini cars that were stuck into a pile of sand is seen outside the fair grounds of the Frankfurt International Auto Show IAA in Frankfurt, Germany, September 12, 2007.
Jockeys compete during Chonburi's annual buffalo races festival, nearly 75 kilometers (47 miles) southeast of Bangkok, October 24, 2007. The event, which also celebrates the rice harvest, originates back to the buffalo trade in Chonburi, once the trade center of Thailand's East.
A man walks the tightrope in the remote mountain village of Tsovkra-1, some 3,000 meters above sea level in Russia's Caucasus region of Dagestan August 20, 2007. For children in this remote mountain village on Russia's southern fringe, after-school games means balancing on a wire suspended one storey above ground. By a quirk of history that goes so far back that in time no one really remembers, nearly every man, woman and child in Tsovkra-1 can walk the tightrope.
Doug Bergmann of Edmonton loses his wig while wearing a pink tu-tu costume after performing at a national cannonball championship in Toronto, Canada, August 15, 2007.
Zoe, a domestic shorthair cat, touches the mouse of a computer during a media preview for The Cat Fanciers' Association 5th Annual CFA-Iams Cat Championship in New York October 10, 2007.
Folk artist Yang Yingmin squirts milk through his eye, by blowing hard against a blocked nose, during a stunt performance in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province October 4, 2007.
A race-goer with a hat showing a cigarette in an ashtray arrives for Ladies Day on the third day of racing at the Royal Ascot meeting June 21, 2007.
A member of the African circus Mama Africa squeezes through a tennis racket during the show in Dortmund, Germany, June 15, 2007.
Russian clown Micha Usov performs with a ballet costume during the charity circus gala night with VIPs as participants in Munich's Krone Circus in Germany December 1, 2007.
A man poses with Meike van Schijndel's creation Kisses Urinal during a photo opportunity at Tokyo Designer's Week November 1, 2007.
The heads of three of the Washington Nationals mascots - former U.S. presidents Abraham Lincoln (L-R), Thomas Jefferson and George Washington - sit in a dressing room below RFK Stadium before their MLB National League game against the New York Mets in Washington, September 18, 2007.
A performer from the U.S. known as The Enigma pulls a nail out of his nasal cavity during the inauguration of the International Tattoo Convention in Lima, Peru, November 23, 2007.
A competitor attends the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Brighton in southeastern England September 1, 2007. Participants are judged in various categories of either moustache, partial beard or full beard.
Bao Xishun (L), 56, a 2.36-meter (7 feet, 9 inches) tall herdsman listed by the Guinness World Records as the tallest living man, shakes hands with He Pingping, 19, a 0.73-meter (2 feet, 5 inches) tall man, in Baotou, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region July 13, 2007. He is applying for the Guinness World Record as the world's shortest man, local media reported.
German Tim Vetter and his dog Lucky lick water during a bet in Thomas Gottschalk's TV show Wetten, dass..? (Bet it..?) in the eastern German city of Leipzig November 10, 2007.
Afghan boys ride on a donkey cart carrying part of an old car in Kabul May 19, 2007.
Circus performers rehearse for James Thierree's performance Au Revoir Parapluie (Goodbye Umbrella) at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London October 30, 2007.
Dede, 35, with gnarled growths sprouting from his hands and feet, sits in front of his house in the village of Tanjung Jaya, West Java province, Indonesia, November 21, 2007. Dede hopes a doctor in the United States will be able to treat the horn-like extensions that started appearing on his body when he was a teenager and which earned him the tree man moniker.
A woman holds a Sphynx cat during a local cat show in Almaty, Kazakhstan, September 9, 2007.
Stuntmen perform on their motorbikes and car on the walls of the Well of Death at a fair on the outskirts of Jammu November 28, 2007. The stuntmen earn their livelihood by performing dare-devil stunts by driving their bikes and cars on the walls of the Well of Death and attracting a large number of spectators from all walks of life.
A lavatory-shaped home is seen in this computer graphic image released in Seoul October 9, 2007. South Korean sanitation activists will mark the November start of a global toilet association by lifting the lid on a lavatory-shaped home south of Seoul that offers plenty of water closet space.
Two ethnic Miao children play basketball at a school playground inside a huge cave at a remote Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China's Guizhou province February 12, 2007. The village of Zhongdong, which literally means middle cave, is built in a huge, aircraft hangarsized natural cave, carved out of a mountain over thousands of years by wind, water and seismic shifts.
Tattoos are seen on the head of a man at the International London Tattoo Convention, October 5, 2007.
An x-ray of a glass bottle lodged in a man's lower abdomen is seen at the Nishtar hospital in Multan, Pakistan, November 21, 2007. A 60-year-old man came to the hospital to have the Pepsi bottle removed, which he said armed thieves had inserted in his anus before robbing him of two buffalos, Dr. Abdul Manan said.