From the Texas big freeze to locusts in Kenya - today's best pictures

Take a look at some of the best images from around the world in the past 24 hours

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  A car park at a Home Depot store in the Westbury neighbourhood of Houston, Texas, is snowbound by a winter storm. US President Joe Biden declared an emergency in the Lone Star State on Monday, opening the way for federal assistance. AP

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  Daniil Medvedev of Russia and Mackenzie McDonald of the US on court at the Australian Open tennis championship at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Medvedev won the match in three sets. Reuters

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  Pupils wear masks and sit at socially distanced desks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus on their first day back in class in Bogota, Colombia. Pupils are back in class on alternating days at public schools after a year of online education because of pandemic health regulations. AP

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  Red hot lava hurled into the night sky is seen from Fornazzo village, Catania, Sicily, Italy, as Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, erupts. Reuters

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  A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a Progress MS-16 supply craft aboard blasts off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a rendezvous with the International Space Station. Reuters

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  A tiger swims inside its enclosure at a zoo in Mumbai, India. The zoo, which was closed after the coronavirus disease pandemic was declared last spring, is open again. REUTERS

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  Snow covers the ancient temple of Zeus in Athens, Greece. Unusually heavy snowfall blanketed central Athens, prompting authorities to advise residents against leaving their homes. AP

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  A farmer in Meru, eastern Kenya, walks through a swarm of desert locust. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation and Kenyan partner organisations are tracking and tackling swarms of the voracious insects. AFP

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