Here’s this week of photos that prove we live in a mad world.
Jose, a reveller covered in grease, poses for a photo as he takes part in the annual Cascamorras festival in Baza, southern Spain. Photograph: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
A fan wearing a hat adorned with a tennis ball watches at the US Open Championships tennis tournament in New York. Photograph: Mike Segar/Reuters
A pile of garbage is seen blocking an entrance to a residential building as workers clean up one of its apartments, in Qingdao, Shandong province, China. Photograph: Reuters
A group of participants wear illuminated suits during the Burning Man 2015 "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
A Parson Russell Terrier performs with a small skateboard decorated like a biplane during a dog show at Siberian Venice Park outside the Siberian town of Sosnovoborsk, Russia. Photograph: Ilya Naymushin/Reuters
People take part in The Color Run in Brussels, Belgium. The Color Run is a five-kilometre, untimed race, held in cities worldwide, with the aim of promoting healthy living. Participants are doused from head to toe in different colors at each kilometre. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
A woman dressed as a ghost performs during a promotion of the upcoming Ocean Park Halloween Fest in Hong Kong, China. Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
A woman wearing high heeled shoes kicks a football as she tries out Foot Golf at the Soccerex convention in Manchester, northern Britain. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
A man sleeps under a supply truck along a roadside in Lahore, Pakistan. Photograph: Mohsin Raza/Reuters
Bystanders look at a car that has partially fallen into a small sinkhole along a street in Beijing, China. Photograph: Reuters
Participant Lea touches the art installation "Penny the Goose" during the Burning Man "Carnival of Mirrors" arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters
Students stand on the roof of a wooden boat as haze blankets the Musi River while they travel to school in Palembang, on Indonesia's Sumatra island. Photograph: Beawiharta/Reuters
A man attempts to pull the neck off a dead goose while being repeatedly being plunged into the water during Antzar Eguna (Day Of The Goose) in the Basque fishing town of Lekeitio, near Bilbao, northern Spain. Photograph: Vincent West/Reuters
British comedian Rowan Atkinson, in character as 'Mr Bean', poses on a Mini car besides Buckingham Palace in central London. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
French artist Gad Weil, who imagined and created the "Climate Noah's Arch" poses with a sculpture of a crocodile in Gennevilliers, near Paris, France. Photograph: Benoit Tessier/Reuters