Truly Bizarre
Macho Man Colin Powell is pictured here performing a special rendition of the Village People's YMCA at the ASEAN Regional Forum, Asia's largest security meeting held this year in Jakarta. I guess it's tradition for the various secretaries of state to do a bit of self-mocking song-and-dance, with Madeline Albright doing an Eva Perone routine a few years ago.

Powell danced alongside five other U.S. officials dressed in fancy dress and blasted out a version of the 1970s disco classic to the delight of foreign ministers from across the Asia-Pacific and Europe.

"President Bush, he said to me, Colin I need you to run the department of state. We are between a rock and a hard place," Powell and his colleagues sang to the tune of the disco classic.

The after-dinner show is an annual highlight of the ASEAN Regional Forum, a time for ministers to loosen up after discussing security issues. Footage of the closed-door event was obtained by Associated Press Television News

The Russian delegation, headed by that country's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, sang a version of the Beatles "Yellow Submarine" as a women waving a Russian flag ran around the dinner tables.