The Brazilian health ministry has had to drop a sexual-health awareness campaign with the tagline ‘I’m happy being a prostitute’. But it’s hardly the first STD awareness campaign to stray into the realm of the daft. We take a look at some of the silliest sexual health warnings from the second world war

Photographs: National Library of Medicine

Sungur is a reluctant figurehead. On Wednesday, she declined to discuss last Tuesday’s drama and her sudden fame as the “lady in the red dress”. In brief remarks last week to the Turkish media she pointed out that she was a tiny part of a huge grassroots movement. “A lot of people no different from me were out protecting the park, defending their rights, defending democracy,” she said. “They also got gassed.”

Photograph: Osman Orsal/Reuters

You think Elton John dresses to excess? Pah. From Tom Wolfe in spats to Carmen Miranda’s fruity headgear, via Little Richard, Liberace and Prince, here are 10 true titans of extravagance

Photographs: L Busacca/WireImag, Getty Images, Michael Ochs Archives

The youngest-ever architect to design a summer pavilion for the Serpentine, Sou Fujimoto plays with the distinction between inside and outside space and once based a house on a climbing frame. He has delivered a cloud-shaped structure made of fine steel latticework that people can move in and out of at will.

Here’s a selection of images of the design.

Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

A woman uses a tablet computer as she sits in a tricycle taxi at an road intersection during rainfall in Beijing. More than two-thirds of Beijing’s annual rainfall happens in June to August, breaking the city’s otherwise dry and arid climate.

Photograph: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images

A visitor looks at one of six new tapestries by Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry RA.

Via <a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2013/jun/05/picture-desk-live-the-best-news-pictures-of-the-day”>Picture Desk: Live.</a>

Photograph: <a href=”http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2013/jun/05/picture-desk-live-the-best-news-pictures-of-the-day”>Dan Kitwood/Getty Images</a>

Take a look at some of the the much-reworked drafts for Beckett’s first major novel, which show his extensive revisions as well as doodles of James Joyce, Charlie Chaplin – and himself

Photograph: Sotheby’s

Twitter image mocking Chinese censorship of Tiananmen Square, adapted from AP’s 1989 photograph (the search term ‘Big Yellow Duck’ is banned), as internet search terms related to

Tiananmen Square were clamped down by the government

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Twitter/weibo.com/weibolg

Cute animal picture of the day. A baby chimp is seen at a zoo in Dalian, China.

Taken from picture desk: live, which, alongside cute chimps, also features images from Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation anniversary celebrations, as well as the latest from the Turkey protests.

Photograph: HAP/Quirky China News/Rex Feat