The Lantern Festival in Seoul, South Korea, celebrates Buddha’s birthday. Buddha was born approximately 2,557 years ago; the exact date is unknown, but Buddha’s official birthday is celebrated on the full moon in May in South Korea, which is May 17 this year. In photos by Chung Sung-Jun / Getty Images.

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Animal rights activists from the group “Animal Equality” are covered with plastic sheets to represent meat packaging as they stage a protest during “Day Without Meat” event in Barcelona, Spain, on March 20, 2013. (Emilio Morenatti/Lluis Gene/Albert Gea/Associated Press/AFP Photo/Reuters)

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The US Transportation Security Administration has said that travellers can bring small pocket knives on board planes for the first time since the September 11 attacks, sparking outrage from flight attendants who said the decision would endanger passengers and crew.

This image from the TSA shows the types of baseball bats that airline passengers in the US are allowed to carry.

A street vendor, right, looks at a disguised reveler during celebrations marking the 9th International Poetry Festival honoring Nicaraguan poet, priest and former Nicaragua’s Culture Minister, Ernesto Cardenal, not in picture, in Granada, Nicaragua, Wednesday, February 20, 2013. The festival is attended by more than 300 poets from some 60 countries. (Esteban Felix/AP Photo)

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Revelers participate in the traditional Bloco da Lama (Mud block) carnival in Parati, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, on February 9, 2013. The event, which was begun by two men in a playful manner in 1986, has now become a traditional carnival in which participants disguised as primitives with rags, lianas or skulls and bones, dive in the mud. (Photos by Victor Moriyama/AFP Photo)

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Revellers take part in the battle of “Enfarinats”, a flour fight in celebration of the Els Enfarinats festival on December 28, 2012 in Ibi, Spain. Citizens of Ibi annually celebrate the festival with a battle using flour, eggs and firecrackers. The battle takes place between two groups, a group of married men called “Els Enfarinats” which take the control of the village for one day pronouncing a whole of ridiculous laws and fining the citizens that infringe them and a group called ‘La Oposicio’ which try to restore order. At the end of the day the money collected from the fines is donated to charitable causes in the village. The festival has been celebrated since 1981 after the town of Ibi recovered the tradition but the origins remain unknown. (Photo by David Ramos)

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Happy Hump Day Nation, and what a hump day it is! Carine Felizrado was crowned Miss Bum Bum 2012 in a Brazilian contest designed for days like this. 25 year old Felizrado was overwhelmed with happiness in her win. The curvy Latina tearfully thanked her voters, friends, and family for their support of her posterior. Check out the photos of the winning bum, and the other fantastic entries in the contest as well in the gallery below! (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)

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A South Korean diver clad in Santa Claus costume swims with sardines at The Coex Aquarium on December 8, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. Even though the official religion of South Korea is Buddhism, about 30 percent of it is Christian and Christmas is one of the biggest holidays to be celebrated in South Korea. Photos by Chung Sung-Jun.

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Customers in underwear shop during a special promotion at a mall in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, on December 2, 2012. (Jose Espinola/AFP Photo)

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Sydneysiders take part in the “AIME Strut the Streets” in an attempt to break the Guiness record for the world’s largest swimwear parade on December 7, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. The event was organised to raise funds and awareness for the not for profit charity organisation, the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. In photograps by Lisa Maree Williams.

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