A winter storm packing snow and Arctic cold slammed the northeastern United States on Tuesday, grounding 3,000 flights, shutting down governments and schools and making travel a potential nightmare for millions. -Reuters
This week’s edition of the best of high school sports photography features a clash between the top two boys basketball teams in Howard County, wrestling in Harford County and several Baltimore County girls basketball match-ups.
![Tempted to complain about the cold and the snow? Just be glad you’re not part of one of these blisteringly hot events. [Warning: Graphic images]](https://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/themes/phototouch/themify/img.php?src=https://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SP.GALLERY31P1.jpg&w=670&h=274)
On a snow day like today, it can be tough to remember that there was a time when we all wished it would cool down. Here are some images of hot events around the world to jog the memory — from sitting in a box full of steam and racing in Death Valley for sport to sweltering over hot coals for spiritual wellness.
Grenades are thrown during continued protests in Ukraine, Gov. Chris Christie is sworn in for second term, a suicide bomber kills four in residential Lebanon neighborhood, and more in today’s daily brief.
Overnight snowfall blankets Seoul, the Australian Open marches on in Melbourne, protests in Kiev continue, and more in today’s daily brief.
A look at what’s coming up on the East Coast and around the world. This week, that includes a spacecraft’s awakening, an IMF visit to Romania and two East Coast food events.
Japanese macaque monkeys, known as “snow monkeys,” take an open-air hot spring bath as snowflakes fall.
Anti-government protests in Kiev lead to clashes with riot police, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army recaptures Bor, a volcano in Indonesia spews ash and more in today’s daily brief.
With an oink oink here and a cluck cluck there, animals arrived at the Vatican and elsewhere on Friday to get a blessing. Hundreds of pet owners bring their animals to be blessed every year on the day of Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals. Elsewhere in the world, according to tradition that dates back 500 years, people ride their horses through the narrow cobblestone streets of this small village in Spain to purify the animals with the smoke of the bonfires.
Christians celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany, Singapore’s “big baby” art and more in today’s daily brief.
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