Orthodox Christmas, Chicago’s deep freeze, NYPD recruits, royal twins, snow in the Middle East

Ice builds up along North Avenue Pier while temperatures hovered around zero degrees Fahrenheit on January 7, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. Most of the city’s schools were cancelled today as wind chill temperatures were expected to exceed -30. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Members of the media are hit with snow gusts caused by the landing of Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama is traveling to the Detroit area to speak to workers at Ford automotive plant. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

A member of an historic club wearing 1812-era French army uniform fires his rifle, during an historic festival to mark the Russian Orthodox Christmas in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Dmitry Lovetsky/AP)

Paraguayan Anacleto Escobar (R), veteran of the Chaco War (1932-1935) fought between Paraguay and Bolivia, and his wife Cayetana Roman, smile during a ceremony coinciding with his 100th birthday in which they received a house — the first in their lives they own — as a gift for his merits, in Neembucu, Paraguay. The event was organized by the governor of the state of Neembucu, Carlos Silva, to honour Escobar. (Getty Images)

New York Police Department recruits take an oath during an NYPD swearing-in ceremony in New York. Mayor Bill de Blasio was speaking to hundreds of new police hires who will be spending the next six months in police academy before becoming police officers.(Seth Wenig/AP)

A man prays by his grandfather’s gave at a graveyard covered in snow in the rebel-held city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus as a major snow storm hit the Middle East region. (Abd Doumany/Getty Images)

A woman walks under the snow in Istanbul on January 7, 2015. Heavy snowfall descended on large parts of Turkey snarling road and air traffic and leading to closures of schools, reports said. (Bulent Kilic/Getty Images)

A Syrian boy looks out through his tent door covered in snow at a refugee camp in Deir Zannoun village, in the Bekaa valley, east Lebanon. While the storm disrupted life for everyone, it proved particularly trying for the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who live in tents and makeshift shelters in the Bekaa. The storm dumped rain and hail on Lebanons coast and heavy snows in the mountains and central Bekaa Valley, where gas stations, banks, schools and most shops closed. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Princess Charlene and Prince Albert appear on a palace balcony, each holding a newborn baby swaddled in white in Monaco. The hereditary heir Prince Jacques and his older sister by 2 minutes Gabriella were greeted by a small sea of red-and-white flags and banners. (Sebastien Nogier/AP)

A Lebanese Red Cross volunteer carries the body of a Syrian boy, Majed Badawi, 7, who a security official said had died along with Syrian shepherd, Ammar Kamel, in a snow storm as they made the dangerous trek through the rugged, snow-covered mountains from Syria, in the Lebanese border town of Chebaa, southeast Lebanon. Snow fell in parts of the Middle East on Wednesday as a powerful winter storm swept through the region, killing several Syrian refugees in Lebanon and forcing thousands who have fled their country’s civil war to huddle for warmth in tents in refugee camps. (Ramiz Dallah/AP)

Bosnian Serb children break the traditional Christmas bread to mark Orthodox Christmas Day festivities in Bosnian town of Banja Luka, 350 kms west of Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Bosnian Serbs Christian Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas according to the Julian calendar. (Radivoje Pavicic/AP)

Coptic Christians attend Orthodox Christmas Eve Mass in the Cave Cathedral or St. Sama’ans Church on the Mokattam hills overlooking Cairo, Egypt. The Coptic Christian population are considered to be the largest Christian community in the Middle East and observe Christmas on January 7 according to the old, Julian calendar. (Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP)

An Egyptian Coptic Christian listens during Christmas Eve Mass at St. Mark’s Cathedral, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015. The Coptic Christian population are considered to be the largest Christian community in the Middle East and observe Christmas on January 7 according to the old, Julian calendar. (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)

Bonfires are lit along the hills surrounding the village of Pottenstein, southern Germany, to celebrate Epiphany. (David Ebener/Getty Images)

Andy Murray of Great Britain serves in his match against Jerzy Janowicz of Poland during day four of the 2015 Hopman Cup at Perth Arena in Perth, Australia. (Paul Kane/Getty Images)

An elderly internally displaced Pakistani man from tribal areas stands in front of his mud home, waiting other men to head to work on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP)

Pakistani soldiers patrol outside the central jail in Multan on January 7, 2015, where authorities are said to have executed prisoners Ghulam Shabbir and Ahmed Ali of the banned sectarian militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Pakistan on January 7 hanged two more men convicted of murder and tried under terrorism charges, taking the number of executions to nine since the country lifted a moratorium on capital punishment after a Taliban massacre at an army school last month. (SS MIrza/Getty Images)

India’s Border Security Force Daredevils team perform as they rehearse for the upcoming Republic Day parade amidst the morning fog, in New Delhi, India. Republic Day will be celebrated on Jan. 26. (Manish Swarup/AP)

Belarus soldiers take part in an Orthodox service in a military base in Minsk. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7 in the Middle East, Russia and other Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 17th-century Gregorian calendar adopted by Catholics, Protestants, Greek Orthodox and commonly used in secular life around the world. (Maxim Malinovsky/Getty Images)

An Indian soldier from the Border Security Force camel mounted division speaks to his camel as it rests during preparations for the upcoming Republic day parade amidst the morning fog, in New Delhi, India. U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit India as the chief guest for this year’s Republic Day celebrations, marked on Jan. 26. (Manish Swarup/AP)

Mini’s driver Boris Garafulic of Chile and co-driver Filipe Palmeiro of Portugal compete in the 2015 Dakar Rally Stage 3 between San Juan and Chilecito, Argentina. (Felipe Dana/Getty Images)

Customers queue at the entrance to El Corte Ingles department store before the doors are open on the first day of the winter sales in Barcelona, Spain. The Spanish labor market has finally begun to seen areas of recovery in 2014. A total of 417,574 people signed up with the Spanish Social Security system last year, which has seen the first year of job creation in Spain since 2007, after more than five years of crisis and the steady destruction of jobs market, according to Social Security figures published by the Employment Ministry. The total number of registered unemployed in Spain currently stands at 4,447,711 people. (David Ramos/Getty Images)

Members of the Indonesian Navy carry wreckage recovered from the Java Sea of AirAsia flight QZ8501 upon its arrival at Juanda military airport in Surabaya on January 7, 2015. Indonesia said on January 7 it had found the tail of AirAsia Flight 8501, potentially marking a major step towards locating the plane’s black boxes and helping shed light on what caused it to crash into the sea ten days ago. (Juni Kriswanto/Getty Images)

A Lebanese man rushes to inspect a car after it was washed away by high waves on Beirut’s southern coast. The fierce winter storm lashing the east coast of the Mediterranean forced a brief closure of Beirut airport. (Anwar Amro/Getty Images)

Lebanese men walk past large waves hitting Beirut’s Ain al-Mreisseh seafront promenade. The fierce winter storm lashing the east coast of the Mediterranean forced a brief closure of Beirut airport. (Anwar Amro/Getty Images)

Sumo grand champion Hakuho of Mongolia performs his ring entry forms to dedicate to the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. The Shinto ritual is part of the annual New Year’s celebrations at the shrine. (Shizuo Kambayashi/AP)

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