An Indonesian farmer is dragged through muddy water as he clings to the tails of two charging cows. Standing on a flimsy wooden frame, the daredevil rider is a participant in an annual cattle race in the Tanah Datar regency of West Sumatra, Indonesia. Mud-caked competitors are dragged through paddy fields as part of Pacu Jawi, a festival where locals celebrate the end of the rice harvesting season. Indonesian photographer Teddy Winanda, 37, who has attended the event since 2012, witnessed this year’s race.
A BIKINI swim with jellyfish sounds like the most painful past-time on the planet .
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AN ITALIAN mechanic has created the world’s most ferocious mini-car .
More weather chaos is heading our way, with ice and snow already hitting areas across Birmingham .
PRANKSTER Dom Joly was so livid when he was slapped with a parking ticket that he took to Twitter to vent his anger – only to discover he was the victim of his own gag! The comic got a taste of his own medicine when he was tricked by a fellow joker for the first time in a decade .
A makeup artist from the West Midlands magically transforms herself into famous cartoon characters using body paint .
A Romanian photographer has captured the unique patterns of hundreds of human eyes in a series of striking macro shots .
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FROM motorcycling to department store shopping these spookily faceless people are part of the Chinese-fad for wearing protective solar-visors in public .
These photographs of extreme weather capture storms furiously rolling across the sky above America .
Sam Notaro built his own flood defences to protect his four-bedroom home in Moorland, Somerset Flooding is likely to get worse around Somerset as groundwater levels continue to rise .