5 Year Old Florrie-Anne Forster play’s football in the snow on the Begwyns Hills in Hay-On-Wye, United Kingdom. The MET office confirmed that the Christmas period has been the coldest for 25 years with temperatures as low as -17C being recorded. Snow and ice continue to cause problems across the UK with many roads and schools remaining closed, and forecasters warning temperatures could plunge as low as -20C overnight.
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A man works in a snowy vineyard in Stuttgart, Germany.
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Young Indian street performer Mehdi, 9, performs with a rabbit outside the Mahabodhi Buddhist temple where Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama has been teaching in Bodh Gaya, south of Patna, India.
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A hoar frost clings to trees as the sunsets over fields in Knutsfod, United Kingdom..
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73 years-old Xiao Ying stands on his head before plunging into icy water in Harbin, northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province.
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Members of staff are seen demonstrating a new full body security scanner at Manchester Airport, Manchester, England. Airline passengers bound for the United States faced a hodgepodge of security measures across Europe and airports did not appear to be following a U.S. request for increased screening of passengers from 14 countries.
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A bus is encrusted in ice and snow at the back lot of a bowling alley in the Omaha, Neb., suburb of Elkhorn, where a fire was being put out. A winter storm with bitter cold temperatures and blowing winds is traveling through the region.
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A pedestrian walks past a 25-foot statue titled “God Bless America” by J. Steward Johnson, inspired by Grant Wood’s painting “American Gothic,” as it accumulates snow near the Chicago River on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile in Chicago.
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A military jet passes a skier enjoying the snowy conditions on Glenshee in Scotland as cold weather continues to grip the Britain.
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A woman jogs past snow covered beach huts in Brighton, southern England. Widespread ice and sub-zero temperatures continued to cause disruption across Britain on Thursday, with the coldest weather in 30 years showing little sign of easing as forecasters predicted more snow.
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Fallen snow rests on Stonehenge in Salisbury, southern England. Widespread ice and sub-zero temperatures continued to cause disruption across Britain on Thursday, with the coldest weather in 30 years showing little sign of easing as forecasters predicted more snow.
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A ballet student, part of a class of girls aged three to five years old, smiles at her reflection as she runs during class at a sports centre in Shanghai.
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A young Chinese girl walks off a boat as the annual dry winter season caused the water level along the Yangtze river to be so low, preventing fishermen from going out in their boats, in Wanxian, southwest China’s Chongqing municipality. Up to 400 million people live in the Yangtze River basin, which cuts a swathe through the middle of China and includes some of the nation’s most productive agricultural lands, but the basin has already seen a spike in flooding, heat waves and drought over the past two decades as temperatures rose by an average of 1.04 degrees Celsius between 1990 and 2005.
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A Croatian special policeman checking a car full of liquid explosive in front of German embassy in the centre of capital Zagreb. A man who was later arrested explained that he was forced to this measures as he just wanted to talk with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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A man walks through the snow-covered concrete steles of the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.
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An Indian cyclist rides past the Presidential Palace on a foggy morning in New Delhi. Several incoming and outgoing flights delayed and cancelled, while several trains in the region were reported running late because of poor visibility conditions.
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The Third Quarter moon rises over the U.S. Capitol dome shortly after midnight in Washington.
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