Today in Pictures, March 5, 2019

Recreational swimming in Klang, Malaysia, Singapore Design Week 2019, and other pictures from around the world in Today in Pictures.

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Mar 05, 2019, 09:38 AM

A photo issued on March 4, 2019 shows swimmers (L to R) twin sisters Teo Jia Yin and Teo Jia Qin, Naomi Wong Jiag, Koh Yi Xuen and Chan Yushi wearing mermaid tails, in a swimming pool in Klang, Malaysia. The women are part of a small but growing trend of recreational swimming that allows enthusiasts to swim like fishes. PHOTO: AFP

A visitor at an interactive installation at SingaPlural, a design exhibition that is part of Singapore Design Week 2019, March 4, 2019. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/MARK CHEONG

To find out more about Singapore's history, the public can hop on a bus where actors tell stories of the 1970s, in a show called Buses And Roads: A Bus Theatre Experience, March 4, 2019. PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES/TIMOTHY DAVID

People dressed as penguins play at a playground on the "Rosenmontag" (Rose Monday) in Cologne, Germany, March 4, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman takes a photo of a lake that has turned a vivid pink thanks to extreme salt levels further exacerbated by hot weather in a startling natural phenomena that resembles a toxic spill, in Melbourne on March 4, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

Smoke and fire billow after shelling on the Islamic State group's last holdout of Baghouz, in the eastern Syrian Deir Ezzor province on March 3, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

An Indian artist dressed as Hindu Lord Shiva performs during a procession on the occasion of 'Maha Shivaratri' festival, in Allahabad on March 4, 2019. PHOTO: AFP

A reveller wears a local Carnival costume during the parade of "Carnaval de Dunkerque" in Dunkirk, France March 4, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

Masked revellers take part in a spontaneous carnival characterised by improvisation, satire and the macabre, in the village of Ghaxaq, Malta March 4, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

A car drives along a five-kilometre-long road, which is supervised by regional traffic services to connect the banks of the ice-covered Yenisei River during winter season, south of Krasnoyarsk, Russia March 3, 2019. PHOTO: REUTERS

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