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A rainbow fills the stormy sky above the village of Uploders in Dorset. There is a yellow warning of rain for London, the southeast and southwest of England for much of Tuesday, as well as warnings of snow for much of central and northern Scotland
An Arctic fox helps itself to a bread left out by Inuits at Hudson Bay, Canada. The foxes, with thick, insulating fur, live almost like dogs in the remote camp
Thousands of people gathered at the Batu Caves in Malaysia for the Tamil Hindu festival of Thaipusam
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The Rev Rob Kelsey blessed the River Tweed at Norham, Northumberland, to mark the start of the salmon fishing season on Monday morning, a tradition which dates back to Victorian times
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A polo player returns to the pitch during the second day of play at the Chairman’s Cup in Nairobi. Organisers say interest in the sport has been growing in Kenya, with about 1,000 people expected to attend the event at the weekend
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Tourists watching a dragon dance on the Guangming peak of Mount Huangshan, in the Anhui province of eastern China
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Activists with treacle on their faces staged an “oil spill’ protest outside the London offices of the energy company Equinor on Monday. A decision by the government on whether the Rosebank oil field in the North Sea can be developed is due soon
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It may have been -27C in Vilnius on Monday morning, but that did not stop these women taking a dip in in a lake in the Lithuanian capital
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Monday was the first day of a €2 charge to see the Trevi fountain in Rome. Up to 70,000 people visit each day in the high season
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Punxsutawney Phil, the weather-forecasting groundhog, predicted six more weeks of winter during the 140th celebration of Groundhog Day at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
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A landslide cut off access to Pondok Balik village, in the Aceh province of Indonesia. Floods and landslides are common across Indonesia during the rainy season
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The full moon rises over Toronto. The “snow moon” peaked on Sunday evening in the UK, but may still appear full for a couple of days
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A curious fish peeks out from a funnel-shaped coral in Lembeh, Indonesia. The starry blenny darted back and forth as it watched the camera, coming closer as it got used to the photographer’s presence
Dancers performing at the Carribean Series baseball tournament in Jalisco, Mexico. The tournament began on Sunday and will run until Saturday
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Neighbours got together to move a house across the sea in the Chiloe archipelago in Chile. The house was floated with air buoys and moved to a new location at Lemuy Island. Moving homes this way is a tradition known as Minga
Cold weather in Miami was too much for this stunned iguana, which fell out of its tree when overnight temperatures fell towards freezing
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Lunar new year celebrations got under way near the Champs-Élysées in Paris on Sunday. The year of the horse will begin on February 17
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Visitors wore protective “lobster suits” to float on ice at Yudu Mountain near Beijing
America’s biggest dog show of the year — the 150th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show — continues on Tuesday in New York. Bronwyn Bresnahan and her French bulldog are among those taking part
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