Water swamps a property in Merah North, as floods sweep across northern NSW on February 5, 2012.
People stand in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, as snow blankets the city on February 4, 2012 in Rome. Heavy snowfalls in the Italian capital caused the normally mild-weather city to grind to a halt. Read the story
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