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Offbeat Collection (#3)

Exploring the quirky side of the world: From France's Tour De France to Britain's stamp featuring Queen Elizabeth II in a gas mask, there's always an offbeat twist

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RUSSIA-WEATHER-FEATURE
A woman walks under an umbrella bearing on image of Saint Basils Cathedral during a snowfall in Moscow on April 8, 2021. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

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US-LIFESTYLE-BROOKLYN-BASKETBALL
Basketball players practice in a park in Brooklyn before the New York city skyline on April 7, 2021. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)

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TAIWAN-TOURISM
An aerial view shows leisure boats moored at Liyu Lake in Hualien on April 11, 2021. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP)

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Worlds Ugliest Dog Competition
Fabio, a 13-year-old a teacup Chihuahua, curls his tongue at the Worlds Ugliest Dog Competition in Petaluma, California on June 21, 2019. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) / ALTERNATIVE CROP

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Swimming-France-Monte Cristo-offbeat-
Swimmers compete in Le Defi Monte-Cristo (Monte Cristo Challenge) swimming event at the Chateau d If, off the coast of Marseille, southern France, on June 21, 2019. (Photo by Boris HORVAT / AFP)

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France-Transport-Aviation-Airshow-Airbus-plane
Visitors look at the engine of the Airbus A330 MRTT multirole tanker aircraft while visiting the Airbus static display at the International Paris Air Show on June 18, 2019 at Le Bourget Airport

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Italy-Rome-Culture-Heritage-Archaeology-Tourism
The Forum of Caesar is pictured with the Altare della Patria monument (Vittorio Emanuele II Monument, 1885-1911) on June 13

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Football-Asia-China-Children-Kindergarten-Ball
In this picture taken on June 6, 2019, students of Kangcheng kindergarten attend a football training session at their school in Minhang District in Shanghai

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Castle-Prague-Czech-sunset-Tourism-
A plane flies behind the silhouette of the Prague Castle as the sun sets on May 30, 2019 in Prague. (Photo by Michal CIZEK / AFP)

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Seal-Animal-Germany
A seal bathes in its pond at Berlins Zoologischer Garten Zoo on June 5, 2019, as temperatures rose past the 30 degree Celsius mark. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

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Surfing-Germany-Offbeat
Picture taken with long time exposure shows a surfer riding on an artificial wave in the canal of the Eisbach river at the English Garden park in Munich, southern Germany

Background imageOffbeat Collection: Germany-Weather-Feature

Germany-Weather-Feature
A boat sails on lake Starnberger See as in background can be seen an Alps panorama near Starnberg, southern Germany, where temperatures reached 28 degrees Celsius on June 3, 2019

Background imageOffbeat Collection: Vietnam-Festival-Balloons-Hue

Vietnam-Festival-Balloons-Hue
This aerial photograph shows a hot air balloon flying over the the former capitals stone citadel during a hot air balloon festival in the central Vietnamese city of Hue on April 28, 2019

Background imageOffbeat Collection: Indonesia-Economy-Labour

Indonesia-Economy-Labour
Indonesian fishermen fish using a wooden boat during sunset at a shore in Banda Aceh on April 21, 2019. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)

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France-Animal-Bird-Feature
A stork flies over the countryside on April 25, 2019 in Lavau-sur-Loire, western France. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)

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Us-Religion-Good_Friday
The Brooklyn Bridge is seen during The Way of the Cross passage across the landmark structure April 19, 2019, the annual procession held on Good Friday, emulating Christs walk to Calvary

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Germany-Exhibition-Horticultural-Weather
A bee lands on a large-leaved lupine (lupinus polyphillus) in the bees garden at the Federal Horticultural Show (Bundesgartenschau) in Heilbronn, southern Germany, on April 16, 2019

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Us-Tourism-Dumont-Dunes
The Dumont Dunes are pictured in the Mojave desert in California on April 8, 2019. (Photo by Agustin PAULLIER / AFP)

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Spain-Religion-Christianity-Holy Week-Easter
Penitents of the La Paz brotherhood parade during a Palm Sunday procession in Sevilla as part of the Holy Week on April 14, 2019. (Photo by CRISTINA QUICLER / AFP)

Background imageOffbeat Collection: Indonesia-Society-Leisure

Indonesia-Society-Leisure
A man does windsurfing at sunset on a shore in Banda Aceh on April 7, 2019. (Photo by CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP)

Background imageOffbeat Collection: Panama-Sunrise-Feature

Panama-Sunrise-Feature
An airplane flies over Panama Bay, in Panama City during sunrise on April 8, 2019. (Photo by Luis ACOSTA / AFP)

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India-Kashmir-Society-Weather
Kashmiri boatmen paddle on their boats in the Dal Lake after sunset, following a heavy snowfall in Srinagar on April 5, 2019. (Photo by Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)

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France-Monument-Weather-Spring-Feature
This picture taken on April 3, 2019 shows flowering trees in front of the Eiffel tower in Paris. (Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

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Russia-Military-Music-Festival
Russian honour guards perform during the Spasskaya Tower international military and music festival on the Red Square in Moscow on August 24, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV

Background imageOffbeat Collection: France-Agriculture

France-Agriculture
An aerial view shows haystacks in a field in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle, northern France, on July 19, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET

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Honduras-Street-Feature
A woman walks her dog past a graffiti, at the Central square in Tegucigalpa, on July 31, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ORLANDO SIERRA

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France-Weather
A boy dives off rocks into the sea at sunset in Quiberon, north-western France on August 3, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / CHARLY TRIBALLEAU

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Britain-Lifestyle
People walk towards the lighthouse on Roker Pier in Sunderland, north east England, on August 7, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLIS

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Skorea-Religion-Social-Moon
Couples attend a mass wedding ceremony entitled the Hyojeong Holy Blessing Ceremony organised by the Unification Church at the churchs Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong on August 27, 2018

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Spain-Streetart-Meninas
Picture shows a mural painting in Ferrol, on September 2, 2018, during the annual street art festival " Meninas de Canido" set up in 2008 to breathe new life in a dying neighborhood

Background imageOffbeat Collection: Germany-Zoo-Feature

Germany-Zoo-Feature
A gannet looks on in his enclosure at the Zoo in Bremerhaven, nothern Germany, on June 7, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Patrik STOLLARZ /

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France-Paris-Tourism-Security-Eiffel-Tower
This picture taken on June 14, 2018 shows part of a new steel fence set around the Eiffel tower in Paris as an anti-terrorism measure. / AFP PHOTO / Philippe LOPEZ

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Britain-Scotland-Agriculture-Farming-Show
A Highland bull is pictured on the second day of The Royal Highland Show at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston, near Edinburgh on June 22, 2018

Background imageOffbeat Collection: Mexico-Art-Mural

Mexico-Art-Mural
A worker pushes a cart past a mural by urban artist Daniel Gomez, aka Dicoe, painted in the framework of the project " La Bodega de Arte"

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India-Weather-Animal
An Indian white tigress takes sit a pond in a enclosure during a hot day at the Kamla Nehru Zoological Park in Ahmedabad on May 26, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SAM PANTHAKY

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Hong Kong-Sport-Culture-Tradition
Competitors take part in the annual dragon boat race held to celebrate the Tuen Ng festival in the Aberdeen typhoon shelter in Hong Kong on June 18, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE

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France-Sea-Animals
A picture taken on March 16, 2018 shows jelly fish at the sea center Oceanopolis in Brest, western of France. / AFP PHOTO / Fred TANNEAU

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Women dressed in traditional Hungarian outfit prepare their votes in a polling station in a school in Veresegyhaz, some 30kms east of Budapest, on April 8, 2018, during the general election

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China-Economy-Bicycles
This image taken with a drone shows numerous abandoned public shared bicycles at a lot in Shanghai on May 10, 2018. China issued national guidelines governing bike-sharing operations in 2017 in an

Background imageOffbeat Collection: Brazil-Daily Life-Art-Skateboarding

Brazil-Daily Life-Art-Skateboarding
A skateboader performs on a sculpture installed for the Urban Art Festival " Arte Core" at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (MAM Rio) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on October 18, 2014

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Us-Cityscape-New_York-Sunset
The skyline of Manhattan is seen at sunset in New York, May 23, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB

Background imageOffbeat Collection: India-Weather-Summer

India-Weather-Summer
Indian youths play in a swimming pool during a hot day in Chennai on May 9, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / ARUN SANKAR

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Lebanon-Sea-Life
A photo taken 10 meters underwater off the coast of Batroun city north of Beirut Lebanon on the night of May 3, 2018 shows a bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata)

Background imageOffbeat Collection: France-Nature-Animal-Sea

France-Nature-Animal-Sea
A red starfish is pictured on May 01, 2018, off the coast of La Ciotat, southern France, by 25 meters deep. / AFP PHOTO / Boris HORVAT

Background imageOffbeat Collection: India-Animal-Weather

India-Animal-Weather
A mother monkey with its baby swim in the Yamuna river during a hot summer day in Mathura on April 29, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET

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Belarus-Animal-Birds
A black grouse performs courtship rituals on a field near the village of Lovchitsy, some 65 km northwest of Minsk, on May 3, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / MAXIM MALINOVSKY

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New Zealand-Pope Kisses the Ground
Pope John Paul II kisses the ground upon his arrival in Auckland airport on the fourth leg of a six-nation tour 22 November 1986. AFP PHOTO JEAN-CLAUDE DELMAS / AFP PHOTO / JEAN-CLAUDE DELMAS

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Fashion-Muller-Saint Laurent
A model presents a creation for French designer Yves Saint Laurent, 22 January 2002, during the retrospective part of Saint Laurents last ever show at the Centre Georges Pompidou art gallery in



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Exploring the quirky side of the world: From France's Tour De France to Britain's stamp featuring Queen Elizabeth II in a gas mask, there's always an offbeat twist. Who knew scuba diving with an umbrella could be so stylish? Meet Downing Street Cat, the feline witness to Brexit drama. The Rockettes' Christmas extravaganza brought entertainment to new heights in the US. In Brazil, even bikers have their trusty feline companions. Witnessing Ninots Burn at Fallas Festival Valencia is like stepping into a surreal dreamland. India welcomes New Year with cricket fever and celebrations galore. Glastonbury Music Festival in Britain never fails to bring out eccentric performances and unforgettable memories. Rows of VWs lined up perfectly - a sight that pleases any car enthusiast. Colombia surprises us with adorable tiger cubs roaming freely among its diverse wildlife. Hong Kong takes paragliding to new heights, offering breathtaking views from above.