Children as young as five have continued a tradition of smoking cigarettes during Epiphany celebrations in a Portuguese village.

STRESSED, overworked and broke — and that’s just during the holidays.

A persistent spell of extreme cold has caused more deaths among Russians stranded on frigid streets but failed to freeze the spirits of thousands who plunged into ice water for an annual ritual marking a Russian Orthodox Christian holiday.

Cold weather so painful that even winter-hardened Russians complained about it has gripped Moscow and much of the rest of the country.