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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.
The internet has been awash with viral videos of boiling water being thrown into the cold Siberian air and freezing, transforming into a snowy dust. Residents of Omsk, known as one of Russia's coldest regions, got into the video posting challenge by throwing pans of boiling water into the air and watching it turn into powdery snow instantly. Temperatures in the Omsk Region plunged as low as -36.4 degrees Fahrenheit this January.
As part of a traditional method to prevent influenza, Siberian schoolchildren often pour buckets of water over their heads outside in the winter, when temperatures hover right around 0 degrees Fahrenheit. Of course, the children sit in a piping ho Russian sauna first. This traditional remedy was practiced for hundreds of years and Siberians swear it works. At the beginning of the academic year, parents have to confirm whether they permit their children to join such cool outdoor activities.
Welcome to the Russian village of Oymyakon, one of the coldest permanently inhabited regions on earth. Yesterday, the temperature dropped to a frostbitingly cold −55 °C, or −67 °F, but that didn't stop students from going to school. Just to give a sense of how cold it gets, Oymyakon's permafrost remains frozen year-round and it's responsible for coldest officially recorded temperature in the northern hemisphere, recording −67.7 °C (−89.9 °F) on February 6, 1933.
A long queue of cars drive along the only road south to evacuate from Fort McMurray, after four neighborhoods of the city in Canada's major oil-producing region, were ordered evacuated as an out of control wildfire drew near and the skies filled with smoke. IMAGES
Hundreds of people gather in the South African town of Cape Town for a pro-Palestinian march, amidst the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Chanting slogans and carrying flags, banners and signs, the crowd moved through the streets. The war started after Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 34,535 people in Gaza, mostly women and children according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry. IMAGES
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