WEIRD WORLD

A selection of photographs from around the world, covering a variety of topics.

A trio of basketball trick shot masters videoed their latest stunt, netting a ball from the top of the Reunion Tower in Dallas

West Yorkshire council poster warning women of dangers of excessive drinking at centre of blame row.

French interior minister Manuel Valls hails 10% fall in number of cars burnt out.

NYE is off the cards because of strict Sharia Law secret police.

Andrew Frey fights off officers trying to arrest him for pleasuring himself in a bar.

From Putin's coming out to Beyoncé's Illuminati-backed coup we bring you our predictions for 2014.

Kiki Lin is charged with animal cruelty after Facebook post shows her cat stuffed in a jar.

Flesh-eating piranhas wound 70 Christmas swimmers in Argentina city of Rosario

Ambar Arianto Mulyo strangled by 4.5-metre snake near luxury Hyatt hotel in indonesian holiday island.

Celebrity waxwork figures are either remarkably similar to their real-life counterparts or completely different, as IBTimes UK discovers.

An Israeli man who discovered a bag of $200,000 worth of diamonds has returned them to their owner

Penis beakers, schools overrun by goblins, fake legs mistaken by perverts - how will 2014 match it?

Bargain hunter used 470 supermarket coupons to buy £600 of food for poor families.

Tom Crist puts lotto win into trust fund for charities and his children in memory of deceased wife

Arab social media is rife with reports of devil child born in Israel with one eye and no nose

A Yemeni father asks his daughter's husband-to-be to get a million Facebook likes as dowry.

Londoner arrives back in the nick of time after riding Boris Bike up French mountain and back.

Ericka Marie Danna was allegedly found with the contraband inside her following her arrest for disturbance the peace.

PR crisis for 20 Fenchurch Street skyscraper as window reflections hot enough to cook eggs in Eastcheap.