Updated 11:16pm 19 January 2013

World in Pictures, January 9, 2013: Family flees Australian wildfires, storms in Palestine and a big chill in South Korea (GALLERY)


Ross Davey is supervised by a ray as he cleans the ray pool at the during Sea Life London Aquariums annual Deep Clean
Ross Davey is supervised by a ray as he cleans the ray pool at the during Sea Life London Aquariums annual Deep Clean

TODAY’S World in Pictures features photographs of  Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren taking refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages near-by in the Tasmanian town of Dunalley, Australia; Palestinians crossing a road flooded and swept away by heavy rains in the northern West Bank village of Kabatyeh and Japanese macaques huddling together for warmth as temperatures plummet in Seoul, South Korea.

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