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A general view of a beach, known as playa Bonita, in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic, January 2, 2008.

A general view of a beach, known as playa Bonita, in Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic, January 2, 2008.

A man walks with an umbrella during a snowfall in central Sofia, Bulgaria, January 2, 2008.

The remains of the flooded village Sant Roma emerge from the low waters of the Sau reservoir, currently at approximately one-fifth of its capacity, north of Barcelona, December 20, 2007. Water levels in many reservoirs in Spain have fallen to their worst levels since the drought of 2005 after practically no major showers since June. Under such conditions, the region of Catalonia will impose water restrictions from May or June, the Calatan Water Agency said.

A smoke stack is seen next to apartment blocks on a cold, winter day in Beijing December 19, 2007. Beijing, wary of it's clean air target before next year's Olympic Games, has poured about 120 billion yuan (US$16 billion) in environmental programmes for the games, dismantling dirty factories and stripping thousands of high-polluting taxis and buses from the road. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA)

A woman walks on a street in Russia's southern city of Stavropol during a snowstorm at minus 5 degrees Celsius (23 Fahrenheit), December 19, 2007. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko (RUSSIA)

A woman walks on a street in Russia's southern city of Stavropol during a snowstorm at minus 5 degrees Celsius (23 Fahrenheit), December 19, 2007. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko (RUSSIA)

The Llaima volcano spews smoke and lava, some 850 km (528 miles) south of Santiago, Chile, January 2, 2008.

A teenager travels on his sled head-first down a hill in the snow in Edinburgh, Scotland as snow fell in Britain for the first time this year, January 3, 2008.

A truck drives outside the Siberian town of Novy Urengoy at temperatures of around minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit), December 18, 2007.

A couple ski through the snow covered winter landscape of Unterammergau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, January 1, 2008.

People skate on the frozen Wei Ming lake at Peking University in Beijing January 4, 2008.


A man looks out of the ice-covered window of a tramway in Bucharest, Romania, January 3, 2008.

A boat is left in a flooded living room in Thailand's southern town of Sungai Kolok December 19, 2007.

A gas flare is seen at the newly opened Yuzhno Russkoye oil and gas field, some 200 km (124 miles) from the town of Novy Urengoy, Russia, December 18, 2007.

Construction workers lay bricks on a wall in Kabul January 4, 2008.

A passenger jet sits on the tarmac in heavy fog at an airport in Hefei, east China December 19, 2007.

A laborer looks for usable coal for sale at a cinder dump site on the outskirts of Changzhi, Shanxi province, China, December 19, 2007.

Bamboo logs are transported down the river Longai near Kanmun village, about 235 km (146 miles) west from Aizawl, capital of India's remote northeastern state of Mizoram January 2, 2008.

A swan sits in the water next to footprints in the snow at Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, Scotland, as snow fell in Britain for the first time this year, January 3, 2008.

Tourists stand amid heavy snowfall in Patnitop, about 112 km (70 miles) northeast from Jammu, December 12, 2007. Patnitop is one of the commonly frequented hill stations and tourist destinations of Jammu and Kashmir.

A Chinese man fishes on a frozen canal after digging holes in the ice in central Beijing January 2, 2008.