Like all flying squirrels, this one from Hokkaido, in Japan, does not actually fly. Instead, it has a special membrane between its front and back legs, called patagia, that allows it to glide for about 50 metres from tree to tree
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Artists from the dance company Recirquel perform during the dress rehearsal for Kristaly, or Crystal, in Budapest. The contemporary circus has been able to bring the winter fairy tale back to life this year after streaming their 2020 performances online
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The coastguard has warned people to avoid a beach in the village of Mundesley, Norfolk, after heavy rainfall caused the cliff to collapse. This time last year another cliff fall in the area demolished part of a pathway leading down to the beach
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The Austrian snowboarder Clemens Millauer, 26, has found a way to turn snowboarding on its head. Starting from the bottom of a mountain in Absolut Park, in Flachauwinkl, he swaps the traditional ski lift for a winch from a helicopter and a snowmobile and makes his way across the slope the wrong way round, with fellow snowboarders and skiers coming at him from the other direction
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Pope Francis meets a Peruvian delegation at the Vatican while welcoming those who donated the St Peter’s Square Christmas tree and nativity scene
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Hackney Empire, in London, celebrated its 120th anniversary with a raucous performance of its Jack and The Beanstalk pantomime with Clive Rowe playing Dame Trot. The theatre, which was built in 1901, spent parts of its life as a TV studio and bingo hall before reopening as a theatre in the mid-1980s
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The artist Jenni Dutton made the piece Blond Hair Dress using discarded hair from a hairdressers. It is on display in London as part of the exhibition Hair — Untold Stories at the Horniman Museum
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Made famous by the print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the reality of the tides off the coast of Mount Fuji, in Fujisawa, Japan, is a far more pleasant prospect for surfers
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Residents in Rome, Italy, were surprised to see a waterspout — a column of rotating, cloud-filled wind that is normally found above a body of water — tear its way through the city this week
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Pauline the pony is one of the animals that will start visiting the Johannishof elderly care centre every month to comfort residents in Rosdorf, Germany
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The clock collection of Gul Kakar, 44, a police officer in Quetta, Pakistan, is housed inside the city’s police headquarters. He says he will spend all the time he has left caring for the timepieces, some of which date back to 1850
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The Red Arrows aerial display team practice above RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, which will become their new base next year when RAF Scampton closes as part of cost-cutting measures
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Sophie Matterson, 33, completed a 5,000 km journey from Australia's western-most point in Shark Bay, Western Australia, to its eastern-most point in Byron Bay, New South Wales. Covid restrictions meant she completed most of the walk with only these five camels for company
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Junior officer cadets at Sandhurst take part in the first full end of term Sovereign’s Parade for over 20 months. It marks the completion of 44 weeks of intensive military training
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Traditional dancers perform at a rally in Nairobi in support of the opposition leader Raila Odinga, who announced he would make his fifth bid for the presidency in Kenya's 2022 general election
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A giant Douglas fir helps this homeowner upstage their neighbours at Christmas in the small village of Falkenstein, Germany
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