A lighter look - in pictures

Dog tired: Pulguinha, an eight-year-old Brazilan, enjoys a catnap while wearing a team jersey on a bench in Rio de Janeiro. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Definitely not amused. Performers posing as human statues at King's Cross Square, the new public area outside the London railway station. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

Holy civil disobedience! Batman is spotted at clashes between demonstrators and police during a teachers' strike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. To the school bus, Robin! Photograph: Antonio Lacerda/EPA

Making a spectacle: an eye-catching form of protest in Hong Kong against the Chinese government. Photograph: Alex Hofford/EPA

Glamour, they say, is in the eye of the beholder: a model presents a creation by the French designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac during Paris fashion week. Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA

I hope the surveyor warned of subsidence! Artist Alex Chinneck's property in Margate, Kent, appears to be sliding artfully into the ground. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

A polar bear (Ursus Cockneyus) practises his Lambeth Walk on a sunny day at Warsaw's zoo. Photograph: Tomasz Gzell/EPA

Hands up who likes parties … the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, seems unconvinced during a visit to a charter school in East Harlem, New York. Photograph: Charles Guerin/PA

A no eyed deer? There's always one who has to take things too far: an overenthusiastic stag gets into a tangle during rutting season in Richmond Park, south-west London. Photograph: Geg Morgan/Solent News

It looks like cyclists are not the only ones to suffer from helmet hair: a model on the catwalk during Alexander McQueen's ready-to-wear spring/summer 2014 show at Paris fashion week. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

It's a panda-emic! Fourteen panda cubs, all born in 2013, are shown to the media and public at a breeding centre in Sichuan province, China. Photograph: China Daily/Reuters

One member of the audience in Aberdeen gets the wrong idea while listening to the Prince of Wales's speech on Inspecting the Crown Jewels. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Pigs'n'Porters: farmers evacuate their livestock from flooding in Phitsanulok province, northern Thailand.
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