Basket with Six Oranges: Vincent van Gogh (1888)

These oranges are incandescent, so bright you take a dazed step backwards in the gallery. The white cloth scintillates, racing up towards the brilliant blue aura of a ship-shaped basket formed of twining, dancing willows. The fruits form a troupe of glowing spheres, apparently lit from within by their own vitamin C. Even the walls seem to be watching the show, admiring the celluloid crackle of sunshine on peel, the singular beauty of each fruit, and the sensational all-together-now performance. Van Gogh turns his winter fruits into a modest miracle.

Photograph: Private Collection

Brr - wrapping up warm for the trip home.

Night all!

A woman shields her face while braving the abnormally freezing outdoors in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, about 1,800 miles east of Moscow. The temperatures in Novosibirsk dropped this weekend to -35C. Photograph: Valery Titievsky/AFP/Getty Images

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Photograph: Viktor Everstov/Reuters

24 hours in pictures - 10 February 2012

Yakutsk, Russia: A child with frosty eyelashes in -35C Siberia

Winter weather around the northern hemisphere

A woman walks through the Cimetiere des Rois in Geneva, SwitzerlandPhotograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP

Temperatures have plunged in parts of Europe and further east. Among the hardest hit countries is Ukraine, where as many as 30 people have died on snow-covered streets, in hospitals and in their own homes in the past four days. Parts of France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey have all seen heavy snowfalls

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