
Snow ties up European planes, trains, roads
Frankfurt's airport closed, trains stopped running under the English Channel, and the French army was ordered to help clear roads — all because of a ...
Migrants storm Spanish border fence in Melilla
Spanish authorities say more than 150 sub-Saharan migrants charged a barbed-wire border fence and tried to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from ...

Chavez's try to be savior of poor floundered in US
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send thousands of soldiers, firefighters and volunteers to help ...

Floods endanger 2 dams in Macedonia
Two dams in Macedonia are in danger of collapsing because of extensive flooding caused by four days of torrential rain, while authorities were ...

Budweiser maker AB InBev reports lower profit
Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world's largest brewer, said Wednesday that profit fell 4.9 percent in the fourth quarter due to higher financing costs, ...
Macedonia flooding kills 1, leaves homes inundated
Extensive flooding has hit Macedonia after three days of heavy rain, leaving one man dead, bridges wiped out and homes and fields inundated Tuesday.

Greece: Fierce storm causes blackouts, road havoc
Torrential rainfall in Greece's capital Friday crippled traffic, inundated basements and streets, and was blamed for the death of woman whose car was ...

World Cup snowboard races cancelled in Sochi
Snowboard World Cup races at the Sochi Olympics venue were cancelled because of warm weather on Friday. Organizers first postponed the parallel slalom ...
UK retail sales drop amid bad weather
Official figures show retail sales in Britain dropped more than expected in January, stoking fears the economy might slip into another recession.
Avalanche kills 2 people in Scottish Highlands
Police say an avalanche in the Scottish Highlands has killed two people and left a third in critical condition. Emergency services responded to ...

HMS Bounty crewman says he urged abandoning ship
The chief mate of a replica 18th-century sailing ship that sank off North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy told investigators Tuesday that the ship's ...

Northeast slowly recovering from blizzard
Travel eased and life slowly returned to normal for most New Englanders after a massive blizzard, but many remained without power in cold and darkened ...

New England begins the big dig-out after epic snow
New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet (a meter) of snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to ...

Northeast storm disrupts schedule for sports teams
The Tampa Bay Lightning were already in Boston when the blizzard shut down the roads, trains and airports. The Bruins and all of the game officials ...

Snowstorm forces rescheduling of Bruins-TB game
The Boston Bruins have postponed Saturday night's game against the Tampa Bay Lightning because of the blizzard that dumped more than 2 feet of snow ...

Putin angry over Sochi Olympics cost overruns
A year before the 2014 Winter Olympics are to begin, President Vladimir Putin has demanded that a senior member of the Russian Olympic Committee be ...

IOC chief defends high costs for Sochi Olympics
With the Winter Olympics a year away, IOC President Jacques Rogge praised Sochi organizers on Wednesday and defended the $51 billion price tag.

Sochi a point of national pride for Putin's Russia
One year before Russia hosts its first Winter Olympics, this Black Sea resort is a vast construction site sprawling for nearly 40 kilometers (25 ...
Weather takes toll on freestyle WCup ski cross
Poor weather conditions forced the cancellation of Saturday's freestyle World Cup ski cross event. FIS Freestyle says "heavy rain through the night ...

Deep freeze to continue into weekend in East
A teeth-chattering cold wave with subzero temperatures is expected to keep its icy grip on much of the eastern U.S. into the weekend before seasonable ...

Pilot was warned about bad weather before crash
The pilot involved in last week's London helicopter crash had been warned about bad weather before he started his doomed flight, according to an ...
About 2 million without running water in Chile
Too much rain means too little water for about 2 million Chileans. Heavy rains and warm weather have melted snowy peaks in the Andes mountains, ...

More English school closings in 2nd day of snow
Several hundred schools in England are closed because of heavy snow, prompting some harrumphing that the nation surrenders too easily to foul weather.

More delays at Heathrow as Britain hit by snow
Hundreds of flights were canceled in Britain, France and Germany on Monday as snow and ice blanketed Western Europe. London's Heathrow airport ...

Heathrow cancels 260 flights, blames snow
London's Heathrow airport canceled 260 flights — about 20 percent of its usual schedule — on Sunday because of snow and low visibility, causing a ...