Weatherday: Frau Bundeskanzlerin

Street seller, Luang Prabang, Laos (2006).

A cold and sunny day. From a below-zero start, temperatures will get up to 6deg in very light variable breezes. Cold again tonight.

On this day in 2005, German politician Angela Merkel was sworn in as the country's chancellor, becoming the first woman to hold the post.

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