A giant snow sculpture supported by Sapporo Television Broadcasting representing the indigenous northern Japanese peoples Ainu creation myth Ainu Rakkur, is seen during the Sapporo Snow Festival in Sapporo.
- A small jungle has been inaugurated inside a French zoo near Paris, which resembles tropical rainforests. It shelters some of the world's most endangered animals.
- Extremely rare giant panda twins have taken their first steps outside, six month after their birth at a Belgian zoo.
- Tens of thousands of tourists have flocked to the snow festival in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo.
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