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New Orleans, US
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
Photograph: Michael DeMocker/Getty Images
Beijing, China
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
Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Tapachula, Mexico
Children wait stranded with their parents after their online permits to enter the US were cancelled by the Trump administration
Photograph: Torres Cancino/Anadolu/Getty Images
Kitzbühel, Austria
France’s Maxence Muzaton waits to start a training run at the FIS Alpine ski world cup
Photograph: Leonhard Föger/Reuters
Meyers, US
Dustin Johnston of the Lake Tahoe forestry service in California watches the Caldor wildfire advance toward threatened buildings
Photograph: Paul Kitagaki Jr/TNS/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock
Seoul, South Korea
A customer reads one of the more than 30,000 books crammed into a secondhand store in an underground shopping centre
Photograph: Daniel Ceng/Anadolu/Getty Images
London, UK
A visitor examines an installation at Somerset House’s new exhibition SOIL: The World at Our Feet
Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Sunlight breaks through the mist over a waterway in the Dutch city where heavy fog has caused road accidents and flight cancellations
Photograph: Mouneb Taim/Anadolu/Getty Images
West Sumatra, Indonesia
Visitors to the Palupuah forest inspect a spectacular Rafflesia arnoldii, the world’s largest flower
Photograph: Adi Prima/Anadolu/Getty Images
Frankfurt, Germany
Commuters drive through a frozen forest toward the fog-shrouded city
Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
London, UK
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
Photograph: Benjamin Cremel/AFP/Getty Images
Bolu, Turkey
Rescuers at the Grand Kartal ski hotel in Kartalkaya where 76 people died and 51 others were injured by a devastating fire
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
Java, Indonesia
Emergency workers search for victims buried by landslides in Petungkriyono. Officers sprayed water to dilute mud stuck to ruined buildings and damaged vehicles
Photograph: Dasril Roszandi/Anadolu/Getty Images
Chernihiv, Ukraine
Mourners at the funeral of Andrii Slautin, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in fighting near Toretsk
Photograph: Maksym Kishka/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images
Gaza City, Gaza
Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation sets up tents for Palestinian families whose houses have been destroyed
Photograph: Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty Images
Damascus, Syria
An aerial view of buildings in the Hajar al-Aswad district shows the impact of the 13-year struggle to overthrow Bashar al-Assad
Photograph: Ercin Erturk/Anadolu/Getty Images
