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Worshippers at a Tokyo shrine welcome the new year with an ice-cold bath in an annual tradition that dates back about 70 years Participants warm up through stretches and chants before plunging into a pool filled with huge ice blocks. IMAGES
Trucks are blocked on the A10 motorway by France's gendarmerie because of freezing rain near the town of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine. Around thirty departments have been placed on orange or red "snow-ice" alert by French meteorological service Météo-France. IMAGES
Former 'Strictly Come Dancing' pro dancers James and Ola Jordan have revealed they are expecting a baby girl.
A German tourist braved freezing conditions in Oymyakon, one of the coldest inhabited settlements in the world, on Thursday, as he took an icy dip into the river while air temperatures stood at -50° Celsius (-58° Fahrenheit). Ice-dipping is a long-held tradition among Orthodox Christians, for Epiphany Day, which is observed on January 19th in the Orthodox calender. It celebrates the baptism of Jesus Christ and is said to cleanse and purify the plunger.
Visitors to Moscow now have the opportunity to see a 33,000-year-old baby woolly rhino at the “Warm Permafrost” paleontological exhibition in Moscow. The intact body was found in Yakutia in 2014 in excellent condition, one of the first ever fully preserved baby wooly rhinos. The baby wooly rhino, a member of a long extinct species which roamed the frozen plains of the ice age, is one of the only babies of the species to ever go on dispaly.
The worlds biggest indoor ski resort opened it's doors to lovers of downhill winter sports last weekend in Harbin, China's 'Ice City' located on the border with Russia. The Harbin Wanda Indoor Ski and Winter Resort covers an area of over 860,000 square feet and boasts six different runs, with the longest stretching 1640 feet, the fourth longest in the world. Up to 3000 people can enjoy the facilities at any one time. Wang Jianlin, who is China's wealthist businessman, invested 40 billion yuan, or just under 6 billion dollars, to build the facility.
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