Extreme weather
Music fans at the annual Big Day Out festival in Sydney are sprayed with water on Friday as temperatures in the city hit a record 45.8 degrees Celsius.
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A boy dives into a swimming pool at Dee Why on Sydney's northern beaches on Friday as temperatures in the city hit a record 45.8 degrees Celsius.
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People swim and sunbake at Dee Why on Sydney's northern beaches on Friday to beat the heat.
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Commuters drive through heavy pollution in Beijing on Friday as the country endures its coldest winter in nearly 30 years.
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Traffic moves along the A27 on the outskirts of Brighton on Friday as heavy snowfalls across Britain forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of more than 3,000 schools.
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A young boy makes the most of heavy snowfall in Buckinghamshire on Friday as the icy conditions across Britain forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure of thousands of schools.
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People walk through a flooded street in Jakarta on Friday. About 50 percent of the Indonesian capital is under water following floods that have claimed the lives of 11 people and displaced thousands more.
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A woman holds a bowl of food as she carries her daughter across a flooded street in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Friday.
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A woman writes the French word for cold on her ice-covered car window on Friday as temperatures across France plummeted.
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A Kashmiri Muslim clears snow off the roof of a house boat in Srinagar on Friday as temperatures across the state of Jammu and Kashmir fell below zero.
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