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Smoke billows above the town of Rubizhne, recently taken by the Russian forces as shelling can be heard in the distance. IMAGES
Explosions are heard near the site of destroyed Russian vehicles in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine enters its ninth day of conflict. IMAGES
76-year-old grandma Lyubov Morekhodova has an unusual daily commute. She runs a tiny farm on Olkhon Island in the middle of Lake Baikal, and the lake is totally frozen for 5 months of the year. To assist herding her cattle during the long winter months, the pensioner has taken to ice-skating over Baikal on her Soviet era skates to reach a nearby town for supplies.
Like a scene from out of the biblical fable of Moses and the ten plagues of Egypt, a river in Siberia appeared to turn blood red earlier this week. The Molchanka river, which flows near the village of Novotarmansk in Russia's Tyumen region, has turned a sinister shade of red. The Molchanka, which means silent river in Russian, turned an ominous shade of red about a week ago. Experts have already taken samples for testing but are yet to release the results. Locals believe the cause of the crimson color may stem from chemicals released from nearby greenhouses.
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.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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