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AFP BEST OFFBEAT PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 (163)

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A total solar eclipse is pictured from the city of Ternate, in Indonesia's Maluku Islands, on March 9, 2016. A total solar eclipse swept across the vast Indonesian archipelago on March 9, witnessed by tens of thousands of sky gazers and marked by parties, Muslim prayers and tribal rituals. / AFP PHOTO / BAY ISMOYO

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An arctic weasel runs on the snowy beach of Unstad , Lofoten Island, in the Arctic Circle, on March 8, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / OLIVIER MORIN

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People arrive for the Christian Dior fashion show during the 2016-2017 fall/winter ready-to-wear collection on March 4, 2016 in Paris. / AFP PHOTO / Patrick KOVARIK

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Former French Prime Ministers Alain Juppe (Rear C) and Jean-Pierre Raffarin (L), holding a lamb, visit the French annual farm show (Salon International de l'Agriculture) on March 3, 2016 in Paris. / AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET

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Cardboard cut outs of the faces of three candidates for the Republican nomination for the 2016 US Presidential election (L-R) Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio, are seen set up on urinals in a pub in London on March 1, 2016 as part of an informal poll for customers to log which they dislike the most. Part of the satirical television show The Last Leg, customers at the pub are able to choose which urinal to use and then log their poll on a list on the wall afterwards. / AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS

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Women enjoy sunbathing at the wall of the Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersburg on March 1, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / OLGA MALTSEVA

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An Italian restorer from the Friends of Florence Association cleans Michelangelo's David, one of the world's most famous statues, at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence on February 29, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI

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Couples attend a mass wedding held by the Unification Church at Cheongshim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, east of Seoul, on February 20, 2016. Hundreds of couples were married at the South Korean headquarters of the Unification Church. The Unification Church, set up by Sun Myung Moon in Seoul in 1954, is one of the world's most controversial religious organisations, and its devotees are often dubbed "Moonies" after the founder. AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE / AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE

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A Dogue de Bordeaux rests in the competition area February 16, 2016 in New York during Day Two of competition at the Westminster Kennel Club 140th Annual Dog Show. / AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY

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A Komondor is seen in the judging ring February 16, 2016 in New York during Day Two of competition at the Westminster Kennel Club 140th Annual Dog Show. / AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY

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This photo taken on February 13, 2016 shows Oleg Melnik, wearing a wire helmet, getting electrical discharges of Tesla coil inside a Faraday cage at the Elemento Science Museum in Minsk. / AFP PHOTO / SERGEI GAPON

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Indian bystanders watch as a wild elephant with a tranquillizer dart in its back side walks along a street in Siliguri on February 10, 2016. The adult male elephant was tranquilised and captured by wildlife officials and transported to a nearby forest. AFP PHOTO / Diptendu DUTTA / AFP PHOTO / DIPTENDU DUTTA

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US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a rally February 8, 2016 in Manchester, NH. US presidential candidates, including billionaire Donald Trump and under-pressure Democrat Hillary Clinton, criss-crossed snowy New Hampshire in a final frantic bit to win over undecided voters before Tuesday's crucial primary. / AFP PHOTO / Don EMMERT

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The vicar of the National Cathedral Stuart Kenworthy flips a pancake during the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Race at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC, on February 9, 2016. Shrove Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, precedes Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. / AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm

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Waves crash over Newhaven Lighthouse on the south coast of England on February 8, 2016, as the latest storm hits the country. Heavy winds buffeted Europe's northwestern flank on Monday, forcing road closures and disrupting rail and ferry services in southern England and prompting high wave alerts in France's Brittany region. Gales and heavy rain with wind speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour (155 kilometres per hour) battered southern England and Wales, with flood warnings issued in more than 50 areas. / AFP PHOTO / GLYN KIRK

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Dancers perform during a dress rehearsal before the opening night of the New York Premiere Of Dada Masilo's Swan Lake at the Joyce Theater in New York February 2, 2016. Aspects of Tchaikovsky's original music for Swan Lake are fit Masilo's more modern vision, which fearlessly addresses issues of sex, women's rights and homophobia in a country that is ravaged by AIDS. / AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY

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An African elephants throws mud onto himself at the Mpala Research Center and Wildlife Foundation, near Rumuruti, Laikipia District, Kenya, on January 31, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA

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Abul Bajandar, 26, dubbed "Tree Man" for massive bark-like warts on his hands and feet, sits at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Dhaka on January 31, 2016. A Bangladeshi autodriver dubbed "Tree Man" for massive bark-like warts on his hands and feet will finally have surgery to remove the growths that first appeared 10 years ago, a hospital said on January 31, 2016. The massive warts, which first started appearing when he was a teenager but began spreading rapidly four years ago, have been diagnosed as epidermodysplasia verruciformis, an extremely rare genetic skin disease that makes the person vulnerable to warts. AFP Photo/ Munir uz ZAMAN / AFP PHOTO / MUNIR UZ ZAMAN AND Munir UZZAMAN

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A young girl is sliding on the West Lawn of the US Capitol on January 24, 2016 in Washington. Millions of people in the eastern United States started digging out Sunday from a huge blizzard that brought New York and Washington to a standstill, but the travel woes were far from over. The storm -- dubbed "Snowzilla" -- killed at least 18 people after it walloped several states over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, affecting an estimated 85 million residents who were told to stay off the roads and hunker down in doors for their own safety. / AFP PHOTO / Olivier Douliery

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A model presents a creation by Thom Browne, during the men's Fashion Week for the Fall/Winter 2016/2017 collection in Paris on January 24, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS GUILLOT

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This picture taken on January 19, 2016 shows traffic along a rural road going past a decommissioned Boeing 747 passenger aircraft sitting on a field in Nakhon Pathom province west of Bangkok. AFP PHOTO / Christophe ARCHAMBAULT / AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT

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Japanese wild monkeys known as "snow monkeys" groom each other in a hot spring at the Jigokudani Wild Monkey Park in Yamanouchi town, Nagano prefecture, Japan on January 18, 2016. The park attracts more foreign tourists every year and the number of visitors has increased about 20 percent compared to the same period of the last year. / AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA

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Youth take part in a snow battle in Kiev on January 17, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / YURIY KIRNICHNY

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ALTERNATIVE CROP A horseman jumps over a bonfire in the Spanish central village of San Bartolome de Pinares in the province of Avila, Castile and Leon, during the opening of the traditional religious festival "Luminarias" in honour of San Antonio Abad (Saint Anthony), patron saint of animals, on January 16, 2016. AFP PHOTO/ PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU / AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU

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A picture taken on January 14, 2016 shows a murmuration of starlings performing their traditional dance before landing to sleep near the southern Israeli village of Tidhar, in the northern Negev desert, on January 14, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA

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An Indian sadhu (Hindu holy man) smokes cannabis at his temporary camp on Gangasagar Island, around 150 km south of Kolkata, on January 13, 2016. More than 500,000 Hindu pilgrims and sadhus are expected to gather at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal during the Gangasagar Mela to take a 'holy dip' in the ocean on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology. / AFP PHOTO / DIBYANGSHU SARKAR

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ALEXANDRE GROSBOIS Members of the Danza Voluminosa (Voluminous Dance) Cuban dance group rehearse at the National Theatre in Havana, on January 13, 2016. A / AFP PHOTO / ADALBERTO ROQUE

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In this picture taken on January 10, 2016, a woman poses for a photo in front of a beluga whale at a zoo in Beijing. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO / AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO

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This picture taken on January 7, 2016, in Kunming shows Chinese dancer Yang Liping performing the 'Spirit of the Peacock' dance during the 'Dynamic Yunnan' show. The show is a large dance drama and depiction of the life of the ethnic people of Yunnan province, which was choreographed by Liping, famous for her imitation of a peacock in her dance. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE / AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE

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A woman takes a walk at river Spree on a cold winter day in Berlin on January 6, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ

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President of sushi restaurant chain Sushi-Zanmai, Kiyoshi Kimura, displays a 200kg bluefin tuna at his main restaurant near Tokyo's Tsukiji fish market on January 5, 2016. The bluefin tuna was traded at 117,000 USD (14 million yen) at the wholesale market on the first trading day of the new year. Tsukiji market will close its doors after 80 years followed by a new market opening in Toyosu this autumn. / AFP PHOTO / YOSHIKAZU TSUNO

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An American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) feeds in the waters of Lake Chapala in Cojumatlan de Regules, Michoacan State, Mexico, on January 4, 2016. Thousands of white pelicans migrate from the United States and southern Canada to Mexico during winter. AFP PHOTO / HECTOR GUERRERO / AFP PHOTO / HECTOR GUERRERO

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A picture taken on January 4, 2015 shows a murmuration of starlings performing their traditional dance fly before landing to sleep near the southern Arab Israeli city of Rahat, in the northern Israeli Negev desert. / AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA

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This photo taken on December 2, 2015 shows a lenticular cloud forming as white streaks from airplanes mark the blue sky, in a rare atmospheric phenomena above the town of Gevgelija on December 2, 2015. Lenticular clouds have been regularly confused for UFOs throughout history due to the their smooth, round or oval lens-shaped structure. AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI / AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI

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Chinese tourists walk across a glass-bottomed suspension bridge in the Shiniuzhai mountains in Pingjiang county, Hunan province some 150 kilometers from Changsha on October 6, 2015. The bridge, originally a wooden walkway spanning some 300 meters across the 180-meter deep valley, reopened two weeks ago following renovations as a glass-bottomed tourist attraction. AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE / AFP PHOTO / JOHANNES EISELE

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