Two friends take advantage of a rare fall of snow in City Park. The Louisiana city had not had any snow since 2009 and this week’s 10in broke the record of 2.7in set in 1963
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Residents dress up for a ‘little new year’ procession, or xiao nian, which marks the beginning of preparations for the lunar new year and spring festival
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Children wait stranded with their parents after their online permits to enter the US were cancelled by the Trump administration
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France’s Maxence Muzaton waits to start a training run at the FIS Alpine ski world cup
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Dustin Johnston of the Lake Tahoe forestry service in California watches the Caldor wildfire advance toward threatened buildings
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A customer reads one of the more than 30,000 books crammed into a secondhand store in an underground shopping centre
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A visitor examines an installation at Somerset House’s new exhibition SOIL: The World at Our Feet
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Sunlight breaks through the mist over a waterway in the Dutch city where heavy fog has caused road accidents and flight cancellations
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Visitors to the Palupuah forest inspect a spectacular Rafflesia arnoldii, the world’s largest flower
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Commuters drive through a frozen forest toward the fog-shrouded city
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David Sherborne, Prince Harry’s barrister, delivers a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice after reaching a settlement with the publisher of the Sun over alleged unlawful information gathering
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Rescuers at the Grand Kartal ski hotel in Kartalkaya where 76 people died and 51 others were injured by a devastating fire
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Emergency workers search for victims buried by landslides in Petungkriyono. Officers sprayed water to dilute mud stuck to ruined buildings and damaged vehicles
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Mourners at the funeral of Andrii Slautin, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in fighting near Toretsk
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Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation sets up tents for Palestinian families whose houses have been destroyed
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An aerial view of buildings in the Hajar al-Aswad district shows the impact of the 13-year struggle to overthrow Bashar al-Assad
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