43 Of The Best and Strangest Pics of 2016

1. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly corrals the supply of fresh fruit that arrived on the Kounotori 5 H-II Transfer Vehicle

2. A man looks into a sinkhole which appeared in his fish pond in Guiping

3. Participants throw their pillows during the International Pillow Fight Day at Liberty Square, in Taipei, Taiwan

4. Visitors pose in front of a three story upside-down family sized house at the Huashan Creative Park in Taipei

5. An Indian Muslim devotee on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti for the festival of Urs, performs a stunt during a procession at Ajmer in the desert Indian state of Rajasthan

6. Chantal Bauchez poses with her stuffed barbary macaque, named Moukys, at her home in Rebecq, Belgium April 29, 2016. Pets are getting a high-class send-off at Animatrans, a funeral home that claims to be the first in Belgium to cater exclusively for pets.

7. Plants grow out of jeans hanging on railings of a house in west London

8. People take a selfie with life-size humanoid robot HI-4 in Duesseldorf

9. The images of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump are seen painted on decorative pumpkins created by artist John Kettman in LaSalle

10. An aerial performance featuring 100 illuminated drones fly above the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House during the Vivid Sydney light festival in Sydney

11. Elephant Nelly kicks a ball, as an "animal oracle" to predict results of the Germany vs Ukraine match at Euro 2016, in the "Safari Park" in Hodenhagen

12. Cycling - Tour de France cycling race - Stage 12 from Montpellier to Chalet-Reynard

13. Boat crews take part in Swan Upping, the annual census of the swan population on the River Thames in southern England

14. Dolls are seen on the balcony of artist and collector Etanis Gonzalez in Caracas

15. A boy plays on a algae-covered beach in Qingdao

16. Special forces soldier waits to march in a military parade to celebrate the 206th anniversary of Colombia's independence in Bogota, Colombia

17. A child climbs onto a giant mockup laptop keyboard during a promotion event at a shopping centre in Beijing

18. A milk custard bun made to resemble one of the popular Japanese "Kobitos" characters is squeezed during a display for the photographer at Dim Sum Icon restaurant in Hong Kong

19. Skulls are seen at the witch doctor kiosk during the day of offerings to the "Pachamama" (Mother Earth) in El Alto

20. MegaBot's Mr.II robot is displayed during 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California

21. People attend the screening of the film "Jaws" by director Steven Spielberg, screened at Strasbourg public baths during the European Fantastic Film Festival, in Strasbourg

22. Tayama, Kurita and Inoue take part in a "Ikumen" course, or child-rearing course for men, in Tokyo, Japan

23. Members of a school band wearing Star Wars costumes walk in the center of La Paz

24. A dog rides a wave during the Surf City Surf Dog competition in Huntington Beach

25. A man plays flaming bag pipes as opponents of fracking protest outside the offices of Ineos after they received the first shipment of shale gas to be delivered to the Britain at their Grangemouth terminal in Scotland

26. A devotee of the Chinese Samkong Shrine walks with a bike pierced on his mouth during a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket

27. Actors dressed as a 'Yeti' ride aboard a tour bus during a promotional event for Travel Channel's "Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti" in Manhattan, New York

28. Worker Shi Shenwei performs a high bar routine on a scaffolding at the construction site of a Buddhist temple in the village of Huangshan, near Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, September 28, 2016.

29. A Hindu priest offers prayers to a weapon as part of a ritual at the police headquarters on the occasion of Vijaya Dashmi or Dussehra festival in Ahmedabad

30. Sheep shearer Chris Kermond from Ballarat in the Australian state of Victoria rides a motorised 'esky' or drink cooler, while drinking a can of pre-mixed rum and cola at the Deni Ute Muster in Deniliquin, New South Wales, September 29, 2016.

31. Male chimpanzee Chacha screams after escaping from nearby Yagiyama Zoological Park as a man tries to capture him in Sendai

32. A snowboarder, wearing a costume of a basketball player, performs while attempting to cross a pool of water at the foot of a ski slope at the Bobrovy Log ski resort on the suburbs of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk

33. Britain's Prince William is hugged by Chewbacca as British actor John Boyega smiles during a tour of the Star Wars sets at Pinewood studios in Iver Heath, west of London

34. A replica of the Sphinx, which is partly made of cereals, is seen during an exhibition in Shouguang, Shandong Province, China

35. Models present creations by Kazakhstan's design house ABZAL during Kazakhstan Fashion Week in Almaty

36. People look at a replica of a "Transformer", made by a fan, in Shangqiu

37. A traffic policeman herds pigs that escaped from a truck that overturned on a highway in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province

38. 3D-printed Sanpang strawberry milk flavoured ice-cream is seen at the Iceason ice-cream shop in Shanghai

39. A woman and her dogs stop and look at a store mannequin wearing a dog's head mask outside a fashion shop in Nice

40. Bad weather surrounds a Boeing 767 airplane as it arrives onto Enniscrone beach after it was tugged from Shannon airport out to sea around the west coast of Ireland

41. A man pulls the front body of a mini-truck on a camel cart in Ahmedabad

42. A man lies on the ground as his head is stuck in a washing machine in Fuqing county of Fuzhou

43. Guinness Rishi, multiple world record holder including most flags tattooed on his body, poses for a photograph outside his apartment in New Delhi