What am I seeing?
Pictures don't lie, but sometimes they do muddle the mind. Here is a look at some of this week's most confounding news photos. Can you guess what is going on?
20,000 leagues above the sea.
Is this an underwater astronaut or a deep space diver?
Mimicking space
Members of a team including members of French engineering company Comex, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, test the Gandolfi space suit of National Diving School director Jerome Vincent (R) during a training session in a swimming pool in Marseille, France, Oct. 22, 2014.
The underwater atmosphere simulates partial gravity spacewalk conditions.
Back in time
These soldiers look like they stepped right out of East Germany, but the Wall came down years ago. What's going on?
History buffs
Visitors dressed as East German NVA army soldiers look at memorabilia of the former communist East Germany, including the East German flag and portraits of Vladimir Lenin, Erich Honecker and other Communist-era leaders, during an overnight stay in the Bunkermuseum Frauenwald, near Suhl, Germany, Oct. 17, 2014.
White out
Is it raining shaving cream?
Academic tradition
Students from St. Andrew's University indulge in a tradition of covering themselves with foam to honor the "academic family, " Oct. 20, 2014, in St. Andrews, Scotland.
Every November the "raisin weekend," which is held in the university's Lower College Lawn, is celebrated and a gift of raisins (now foam) is traditionally given by first-year students to their elders as a thank you for their guidance and in exchange they receive a receipt in Latin.
Menacing
At first glance, this image looks terrifying. Who is this man wielding a massive blade?
Artistic protest
The menacing mood was quite on purpose. This is the latest display of public protest by Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky.
In this photo, Interior Ministry members detain Pavlensky after he cut off a part of his earlobe while sitting on the wall enclosing the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, during a protest action titled "Segregation," in Moscow, Oct. 19, 2014.
Pavlensky protested against the usage of forensic psychiatry for politically motivated purposes. He cut off his earlobe to demonstrate how authorities could "cut off" an unwanted individual from society by using psychiatric and medical diagnosis to forcefully send a person to a penitentiary hospital, according to Pavlensky.
Presidential pastry
Sweet is not usually a word associated with politicians, but this appears to be an exception.
Celebrating art in Siberia
Participants drink tea and eat pies made to look like U.S. president Barack Obama, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the art performance titled, "Sweet Sanctions: Let's eat each other only for fun" in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Oct. 23, 2014.
Totally fried
A tiny girl appears to walk along the edge of a frying pan, but what is really happening?
Seaside "stove" top
A massive frying pan sculpture, titled "We're fryin' out here" by Andrew Hankin is seen during the 2014 Sculptures by the Sea exhibition at Tamarama Beach in Sydney, Australia, Oct. 23, 2014.