Snowfall, wildfires and the world’s largest flower – photos of the day: Wednesday

New Orleans, US

Two friends take advantage of a rare fall of snow in City Park. The Louisiana city had not had any snow since 2009 and this week’s 10in broke the record of 2.7in set in 1963

Photograph: Michael DeMocker/Getty Images

Beijing, China

Residents dress up for a ‘little new year’ procession, or xiao nian, which marks the beginning of preparations for the lunar new year and spring festival

Photograph: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

Tapachula, Mexico

Children wait stranded with their parents after their online permits to enter the US were cancelled by the Trump administration

Photograph: Torres Cancino/Anadolu/Getty Images

Kitzbühel, Austria

France’s Maxence Muzaton waits to start a training run at the FIS Alpine ski world cup

Photograph: Leonhard Föger/Reuters

Meyers, US

Dustin Johnston of the Lake Tahoe forestry service in California watches the Caldor wildfire advance toward threatened buildings

Photograph: Paul Kitagaki Jr/TNS/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Seoul, South Korea

A customer reads one of the more than 30,000 books crammed into a secondhand store in an underground shopping centre

Photograph: Daniel Ceng/Anadolu/Getty Images

London, UK

A visitor examines an installation at Somerset House’s new exhibition SOIL: The World at Our Feet

Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Sunlight breaks through the mist over a waterway in the Dutch city where heavy fog has caused road accidents and flight cancellations

Photograph: Mouneb Taim/Anadolu/Getty Images

West Sumatra, Indonesia

Visitors to the Palupuah forest inspect a spectacular Rafflesia arnoldii, the world’s largest flower

Photograph: Adi Prima/Anadolu/Getty Images

Frankfurt, Germany

Commuters drive through a frozen forest toward the fog-shrouded city

Photograph: Michael Probst/AP

London, UK

David Sherborne, Prince Harry’s barrister, delivers a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice after reaching a settlement with the publisher of the Sun over alleged unlawful information gathering

Photograph: Benjamin Cremel/AFP/Getty Images

Bolu, Turkey

Rescuers at the Grand Kartal ski hotel in Kartalkaya where 76 people died and 51 others were injured by a devastating fire

Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock

Java, Indonesia

Emergency workers search for victims buried by landslides in Petungkriyono. Officers sprayed water to dilute mud stuck to ruined buildings and damaged vehicles

Photograph: Dasril Roszandi/Anadolu/Getty Images

Chernihiv, Ukraine

Mourners at the funeral of Andrii Slautin, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in fighting near Toretsk

Photograph: Maksym Kishka/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images

Gaza City, Gaza

Turkey’s Humanitarian Relief Foundation sets up tents for Palestinian families whose houses have been destroyed

Photograph: Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu/Getty Images

Damascus, Syria

An aerial view of buildings in the Hajar al-Aswad district shows the impact of the 13-year struggle to overthrow Bashar al-Assad

Photograph: Ercin Erturk/Anadolu/Getty Images