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Maria Amelia hugs her niece Flaviana Silva through a plastic barrier during a visit to the Casa Clara home for the elderly in Brasilia, Brazil. The home set up the system which follows COVID-19 restrictions and protection measures for the elderly residents of the home. Photo by AP Photo/ Eraldo Peres
A cross country skier skis past the weather station at Loch Glascarnoch where the temperature was minus 12.3C. Photo by Peter Jolly/ Shutterstock
A Nepalese supporter of the splinter group in the governing Nepal Communist Party burns an effigy of prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli during a protest in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photo by AP Photo/ Niranjan Shrestha
A dog walker makes their way along a frosty path at Rockford Common in the New Forest. Forecasters predict that the cold spell affecting much of the UK is due to continue, with temperatures expected to remain slightly below average into next week. Photo by Andrew Matthews/ PA
Farmers take out a tractor rally in a protest against new farm laws at Dasna, outskirts of New Delhi, India. Photo by AP Photo/ Altaf Qadri
A dog wearing a jacket running in Queen’s Park in Glasgow. Photo by Andrew Milligan/ PA
Fallow deer at Bradgate Park in Leicester, on a cold and bright morning across the Midlands. Photo by Jacob King/ PA
Heavy snow in Allenheads in the North Pennines, Northumberland. Photo by Owen Humphreys/ PA
An Afghan doctor checks a COVID-19 patient at the Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by AP Photo/ Rahmat Gul
A Lithuanian Orthodox Church believers light candles before the Orthodox Christmas celebration Mass in the empty Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Photo by AP Photo/ Mindaugas Kulbis
Volunteer Ian Cheesbrough works on a model of the Wimborne Radio shop front at Wimborne Model Town and Gardens at Wimborne Minster, Dorset, during the annual winter maintenance. Photo by Andrew Matthews/ PA
People attend a ceremonial burning of dried oak branches in front of a Saint Sava temple to celebrate Orthodox Christmas Eve in Belgrade, Serbia. Photo by Xinhua/ Shutterstock
