The document describes several photos from news events around the world between May and July 2014. It includes photos of: a Sorbian tradition in Germany where a young man is decorated with flowers; people in China balancing during a performance for the World Cup; a 3D painting exhibit in Hong Kong; an upside-down house in Shanghai; and a man wearing a feces-shaped hat at a science museum in Tokyo. It also briefly describes photos of artistic and cultural events from Brazil, India, Greece, and other locations during this time period.

2. A young Sorb looks through a bonnet made of cornflowers and water lilies as he embodies
the ''Johannis'' (John) for the traditional Sorbian ''Johannisreiten'' (John''s horseback riding)
in Casel near Drebkau, eastern Germany on June 22, 2014. Casel is the only place within this
Slavic minority group on eastern German territory that still celebrates this Sorbian tradition,
as part of the Feast Day of St John the Baptist. The girls of the village pick the flowers the
day before and decorate the chosen young man. He is then escorted on a horse to an open
terrain where they try to stop him in order to catch one of his cornflowers, considered to be
good-luck charms. AFP PHOTO / DPA/ PATRICK PLEUL +++ GERMANY OUT (Photo credit
should read PATRICK PLEUL/AFP/Getty Images)

3. A member of the Thunderbolt Craziness band wearing a metal suit balances a soccer ball on his head as electricity is discharged from Tesla coils during a performance to celebrate the 2014
Brazil World Cup, in Changle, Fujian province, China June 12, 2014.
REUTERS/Stringer

4. A woman poses for a photograph with a 3D painting at HK 3D Museum in Hong Kong June 26, 2014.
REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

5. A man dressed as an orangutan sits next to members of the press during media day at the Chelsea Flower Show in London May 19, 2014.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

6. A tourist jumps inside an upside-down house at Fengjing Ancient Town, Jinshan District, south of Shanghai, May 1, 2014.
REUTERS/Aly Song

7. Paris' Grevin Wax Museum painter Franck Bruneau works on the head of Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger at their workshop in Paris, April 9, 2014.
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

8. People stop to observe a replica of the Eiffel Tower built with red bistro chairs to mark the 125th anniversary of the Fermob company's bistro chairs in Paris June 24, 2014.
REUTERS/John Schults

9. Residents play mahjong in a swimming pool to provide relief from the hot weather in Foshan, Guangdong province June 16, 2014. The temperature in Foshan reached 35 degrees Celsius (95
degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday, according to local media. Picture taken June 16, 2014.
REUTERS/Stringer

10. A girl wearing a feces-shaped hat prepares to slide down into a five-meter (16.4-ft) toilet at an exhibition titled "Toilet !? Human Waste and Earth's Future" at the Miraikan National Museum of
Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo July 3, 2014.
REUTERS/Issei Kato

11. Artist Jade Little touches up body paint on model Renee Somerfield, as she poses with a sign reading "Save the Earth, Go Vegan" for a new advertisement by People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PETA) in Sydney July 3, 2014.
REUTERS/Jason Reed

12. A monkey dressed as The Monkey King stands with a chain around its neck at a zoo in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China May 10, 2014.
REUTERS/Stringer

13. A man passes an advertisement poster in downtown Stuttgart, southern Germany, June 2, 2014. Sebastian Kahnert/dpa/AP

14. Hassan Ammar/APA sand sculpture featuring soccer players, Neymar of Brazil, left, and Lionel Messi of Argentina, on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2, 2014.

15. A sheep with dyed pink wool grazes in a field near the village of Balintoy April 24, 2014.
REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

16. A customer sits amongst black cats at the Black Cat Cafe on June 11, 2014 in Himeji, Japan. The cafe originally opened as a regular ''cat cafe'' where clients could pet different kinds of cats, but in
September 2013 the cafe re-opened as a black-cat-only cafe. The cafe owner helps find foster families for cats rescued cats from the Himeji local government pet euthanasia center.

17. Instruments are left on the ground during a break as members of the Royal Marines Band rehearse for Beating Retreat on Horse Guards Parade in London, June 2, 2014. The Beating Retreat is
traditionally a celebration of Prince Philip's birthday. Neil Hall/Reuters

18. A child looks at a humanoid robot "Nao" doing maths at the workshop of Aldebaran Robotics company during its opening week in Issy-Les-Moulineaux near Paris July 2, 2014.
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

19. Visitors wearing umbrella hats sit and wait to enter the grounds on the first day at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, June 23, 2014. Sang Tan/AP

20. A model takes part in the "Trashion" fashion show on the roof of a building in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the Brooklyn borough of New York, May 31, 2014. The show featured designers who
used recycled items such as coffee filters, tissue paper, grain sacks and window screens. Carlo Allegri/Reuters

21. An Argentinian street performer is watched by spectators, in front of city's landmark, the White Tower, at sunset, on the seaside promenade in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, June 24,
2014. Nikolas Giakoumidis/AP

22. An Indian holy man dances on the religious songs as he waits to register for the Amarnath Yatra, the annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Amarnath shrine, in Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir,
India, 25 June 2014. The annual pilgrimage to a cave shrine housing a naturally formed icy stalagmite in a mountain cave 4,115 meters (13,500 feet) above sea level which attracts hundreds of
thousands of Hindu pilgrims annually for two months in Indian Kashmir. EPA/JAIPAL SINGH

23. A man wearing a feces-shaped hat prepares to slide down into a five-meter (16.4-ft) toilet at an exhibition titled "Toilet !? Human Waste and Earth's Future" at the Miraikan National Museum of
Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo July 3, 2014.
REUTERS/Issei Kato

24. Pregnant women practice yoga as they attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest prenatal yoga class, in Changsha, Hunan province June 8, 2014. A total of 505 pregnant
women participated in a yoga class together for 37 minutes and 28 seconds on Sunday, exceeding the current Guinness World Record set in Shenzhen in 2013 with 423 women, local media
reported.

25. An elephant painted with the Russia flag (C) kicks a ball during a performance to celebrate the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, along the Khaosan tourist street in Bangkok June 13, 2014. The
performance was part of an event arranged by the Khaosan Road business association in a bid to boost tourism under the current curfew, according to the association.
REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

26. Pet dogs with sunglasses sit in the front basket of a motorcycle as people commute on a main road in Bangkok on June 3, 2014. Christophe Archambault//AFP/Getty Images

27. Romeo Gacad/AFP/Getty Images

28. A photo by French photographer JR is displayed on the ground of the Pantheon in Paris, a secular temple which contains the remains of distinguished French citizens, on June 3, 2014, during the
exhibition ''Au Pantheon''. The Centre des Monuments Nationaux has chosen to commission contemporary artist JR to create a participatory work inspired by his INSIDE OUT project. AFP
PHOTO MARTIN BUREAU RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION (Photo credit
should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

29. A fan donning miniature national flags representing Italy, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Brazil and Bosnia in her hair smiles, prior to the group A World Cup soccer match between
Brazil and Mexico at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, June 17, 2014. Themba Hadebe/AP

30. A Chinese newlywed couple wearing a traditional costume use a smartphone camera to take a selfie during a wedding photo shoot at a park in Beijing, China, June 21, 2014. Andy Wong/AP

31. An installation made of 400 gas masks in the shape of the radioactive material hazard symbol is pictured in Sofia May 10, 2014. The installation marks the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl
nuclear disaster and was made by an anonymous group of artists, known as Destructive Creation, local media reported. The Chernobyl disaster happened on April 26, 1986 when the Soviet
reactor exploded, which sent radioactive dust across much of Europe.
REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

32. A man visits an exhibition at the China National art museum in Beijing on June 18, 2014. WANG ZHAO/AFP/Getty Images)

33. Visitors walk along a trail commemorating World War One at the Mini-Europe miniature park in Brussels June 15, 2014. The trail presents five cemeteries on the battlefields of the Sambre and
Yser on a scale of 1 to 25, as well as the Christmas truce between British and German soldiers.
REUTERS/Eric Vidal

34. A man smokes as he waits with his painted buffalo before a buffalo bodypainting competition in Jiangcheng county, Yunnan province, May 18, 2014. Artists from eight countries painted on
buffalos to compete for a 100,000 yuan ($16,042) prize reward during the competition on Sunday.
REUTERS/Wong Campion

35. Tibetan participants perform on horses during a traditional equestrian competition in Hongyuan county of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province June 17, 2014.
Picture taken June 17, 2014.
REUTERS/China Daily

36. Chinese women in traditional clothing from the province of Yunnan stand under a portrait of the late leader Mao Zedong in front of the Forbidden City at Tiananmen Square on June 4, 2014 in
Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

37. A family of three walk with their piglet in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon on June 2, 2014. They say they bought the animal in the country’s southern delta, where they were able to fetch
a lower price, and will take it by public bus to their home in the city’s northern outskirts where they will spend the next five months fattening it up for the kill. Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP

38. Vitor Haas concentrates as he sits on a rope before tightrope walking near the Beira-Rio stadium in Porto Alegre June 16, 2014. In a project called 'On The Sidelines' Reuters photographers share
pictures showing their own quirky and creative view of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
REUTERS/Marko Djurica

39. A birdhouse is seen outside the 'Crazy House', which is completely built upside-down, in the village of Affoldern near the Edersee lake, May 7, 2014. Three friends came up with the idea to build
the tourist attraction, which cost about 200,000 euros and took some six weeks to complete.
REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

40. Workers assemble a 10-meter-tall homemade "Transformers" replica on the outskirts of Shanghai, June 30, 2014.
REUTERS/China Daily

41. A participant wears a costume while taking part in the "Miss Gay Nicaragua 2014" pageant in Managua, June 20, 2014. Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters

42. Polar bear Giovanna walks by one of the half-a-year-old polar bear twins in their new outside pool enclosure at the zoo in Munich Hellabrunn, southern Germany, on June 26, 2014. The two little
polar bear cubs Nobby and Nela were born in the zoo of Munich on December 9, 2013. Christof Stache/AFP/Getty Images

43. A sheep dressed in a jersey in the colors of the Colombian national soccer team is seen during a exhibition, prior to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, in Nobsa, June 1, 2014. The sheep is named
Falcao, after the Colombian player. Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters

44. Tourists react to a large bubble created by a street performer in Seoul on June 2, 2014. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images

45. Participants are covered in paint as they take part in the Color Run in London, June 1, 2014. Neil Hal/Reuters END07-JULIO-2014