The week's weird and odd pictures

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Polar bear Yukio tries to break a block of ice with frozen fruit, meat and vegetables inside at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. The zoo started giving the icy treats to the bears 10 years ago because temperatures regularly rise to over 30C (86F) at midday.
One tired competitor looks like he's had enough after negotiating the Battle of the Somme obstacle course during the Nettle Warrior "Tough Guy" competition near Wolverhampton. People taking part also have to crawl through barbed wire and carry logs.
A seal wears sunglasses in Tokyo during the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century on Wednesday. Sadhus, or Hindu holy men, also watched through specially-designed glasses in India. The eclipse was visible across much of Asia.
Poppadoms are stacked during a world record attempt for the tallest tower of poppadoms at an Indian restaurant in Nottingham. The previous record of 1.48m (4ft 10in), which featured on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, was broken by three centimetres.
Knowsley Safari Park has served Anti Social Baboon Orders on some of its inhabitants, whose monkey business has reached new heights. The animals have learnt how to break into car rooftop luggage boxes and steal the contents inside.
Three lion cubs abandoned at birth by their mother feed from the milk of a dog surrogate at a safari park in eastern China. Surrogate dogs are commonly used to feed bear, lion and tiger cubs in Chinese zoos.
Everyone gets stage fright - even, it seems, the French bulldog taking part in a dog fashion show in Taipei, Taiwan. The pooches were modelling the latest collection of beachwear costumes.
Motocross rider Robbie Maddison found an unusual way to cross the Thames when he leapt an open Tower Bridge. The 27-year-old Aussie performed a no-handed backflip as he jumped across the London landmark.
Stylists trim the multi-coloured hair of a poodle at a pet dogs service shop in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province.
Workmen claim a tree stump in Ireland has the image of the Virgin Mary in it. Hundreds of people have travelled there to pray and light candles with some believing the willow should be covered in glass.