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The 34th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival, in China's far northeastern Heilongjiang Province, has opened.

Children as young as three spend their days sitting in soot and breathing in coal dust and toxic smoke to make charcoal out of wood scavenged from rubbish dumps.

The latest photos of the massive winter storm barrelling into the northeastern US, as a rapid plunge in barometric pressure causes bombogenesis or a "bomb cyclone".

The exhibition at Beetles+Huxley in London features Elliott Erwitt's quirky photos of dogs as well as portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Che Guevara.

The Immigrants, at New York's Howard Greenberg Gallery, features the work of more than 40 photographers from the 1860s to 2015, focusing on the immigrant experience.

After battering Britain and Ireland, Storm Eleanor slammed into western Europe, derailing trains, toppling trees and halting flights.

Extreme cold weather has caused parts of the Niagara Falls to freeze as a massive winter storm, followed by possible record-breaking cold, moves up the eastern US.

Flach's new book, Endangered, features over 180 images of remarkable animals such as the mandrill and the Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.

California has legalised the sale of recreational marijuana, and it's no surprise its retail outlets emulate California's most successful brand.

The bone-chillingly cold temperatures have frozen parts of Niagara Falls and caused a mile-long pile-up on Interstate 90 near Buffalo, New York.

Myanmar pledged that Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home later this month. However, few believe that will happen.

Across the northern hemisphere a few brave (or foolhardy) souls celebrated the festive season by diving into frozen lakes or paddling in frigid oceans.

Photographs show the extent of the fire at 1 Above Rooftop, with the entire Kamala Mills complex reduced to a blackened shell of twisted wreckage.

A reveller dressed as former Catalan president Charles Puigdemont was pelted with flour and eggs, and then the battered separatist was locked up up in a mock prison cell.

The attack, which involved at least three explosions, occurred during a panel discussion on the anniversary of the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

This is one of the world's biggest, most prestigious photography competitions, with a big cash prize on offer, and the chance to show your work in London. And it's free to enter.

Former President Alberto Fujimori has finally apologised to Peruvians for the wrongs committed under his government in the 1990s.

A few desperately sick children have been evacuated to hospitals in Damascus from the besieged rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta, but many more remain.

Award-winning wildlife, landscape, travel and news photography from around the world.

IBTimes UK asked 12 Getty Images photojournalists to choose their most memorable photo of the year and tell us the story behind the picture.

A cheeky monkey, a couple of bears getting frisky, a fox urinating into a golf hole – the year's silliest photography contest has a serious side.

The Organisation of American States said Honduras should re-run the election, citing "deliberate human intrusions into the computer system, intentional elimination of digital traces" and opened ballot boxes.

Hilda Hernandez, sister of Honduras's President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and five other people were killed when the helicopter they were travelling in crashed.

Israeli police troopers shot a man wearing what looked like a suicide bomb vest after he stabbed an officer near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the West Bank.

IBTimes UK looks back at how the fight to rid Iraq and Syria of the jihadists played out across the year, in 100 powerful photos.

Cory Iverson, 32, was an engineer with a state fire engine strike team based in San Diego and is survived by his pregnant wife and a two-year-old daughter.

Australian photojournalist Ted McDonnell documents life in Happyland, a ramshackle collection of shelters built around a rubbish dump outside Manila.

The reporters had been working on stories about Mynamar's military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has caused almost 650,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.

Our 2017 gallery kicks off with Barack Obama shedding a tear and ends with his successor inflaming the Middle East.