Weird & Wonderful Pictures Of The Week - 15 February 2013

1. Dragon head Chinese New Year Twilight Parade

Performers move a large dragon head as they prepare to take part in the Chinese New Year Twilight Parade in Sydney.

2. Jeon Wooshil at Chinese New Year

And the beat goes on: performer Jeon Wooshil beats his drum as he prepares for the Chinese New Year Twilight Parade on in Sydney.

3. Chinese New Year Twilight Parade

More than 100,000 attended the annual parade to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year and more then 3,500 performers took part.

4. Rio Carnival - An Explosion Of Colour

5. Rio Carnival - Lights, Jellyfish And Amphibians

6. Japanese Avant-Garde Fashion Designer Junko Koshino Performs at Sao Paulo Carnival In Brazil

7. Venice Carnival - Refined Fun

8. A Beautiful Mask At The Venice Carnival

9. Les Gilles De Binche Celebrate Mardi Gras In Binche, Belgium, A UNESCO World Heritage Carnival

10. The King Of The 5 Continents Figure Being Assembled During The Preparations For The Nice Carnival

OK, this king is a little creepy...

11. Berliners Love Winter

The Cathedral of Berlin (Berliner Dome) is illuminated with text reading 'Cheer up, winter arrives'

12. Mass For Pets

People attend a mass dedicated to animals at the Saint-Pierre-d'Arene's church in Nice with their pets

13. Primrose blossoms

Around 88,000 primroses bloom in the greenhouse of Fontana Gartenbau GmbH in Manschnow, Germany

14. Fog in Germany

Patches of fog move across a meadow covered with snow near Hohenschaeftlarn, Germany

15. Eiffel Tower tous

Two models present the "French Collection," a new pot and pan series with grips in the form of Eiffel towers by French manufacturer De Buyer, at the consumer goods fair Ambiente in Frankfurt Main, Germany

16. Clay faces in Germany

A woman looks at fence decorations made of clay at the Mitteldeutsche Handwerksmesse (Central Germany Handicraft Fair) in Leipzig.

17. Polka dot shoes

Models present shoes during a press conference on the 100th anniversary of the shoe fashion chain in Esssen, Germany

18. Yoko Ono's air dispensers

Visitors try the installation 'Air Dispensers (1971/2013)' by Yoko Ono are presented at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt Main, Germany

19. Yoko Ono exhibition

Yoko Ono poses in front of her installation 'HALF-A-ROOM (1967)' at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt Main, Germany,

20. 'Give Us, Dear!'

Artists Christian Orendt and Matthias Boehler pose next to their room installation 'Give us, Dear!' during a preview tour of the exhibition 'Super Vision Sign and Being' at Museum Castle Moyland in Bedburg-Hau, Germany

21. Dawn in Rio

Dawn with the sun on Copacabana Beach, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil,

22. Fog in Germany

Patches of fog move across a meadow covered with snow near Hohenschaeftlarn, Germany

23. World-wide flashmob

Women dance during a flashmob for the world-wide campaign "One Billion Rising" on Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany

24. Dollmaker

Doll maker Marcel Offermann holds a pope doll in Neuss, German

25. Tiger shark

A Sand tiger shark swims in an aquarium at the Ozeaneum in Stralsund, Germany

26. Dawn in Rio

Dawn with the sun on Copacabana Beach, in the south of Rio de Janeiro, southeastern Brazil