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Saudi Arabia

Unusual snowfall blankets northern Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's northwestern Tabuk region was blanketed in a white sheet of snow and locals wasted no time in sharing photos and videos before it melted away again.

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Europe's weather woes continue

Heavy flooding and avalanches continues to cause havoc across Europe.

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Watch: Heavy snow steals show at Davos

The extreme weather blocked some routes into the city, while several pre-summit meeting had to be cancelled or delayed.

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Heavy snow causes chaos in Alpine region

Avalanche warnings across the Alps in Switzerland, Italy and Austria.

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Switzerland

Thousands trapped as Zermatt cut off by snow again

Villages are cut off and isolated as the railway and the roads were closed due to the danger of avalanches. This includes the Swiss ski resort of Zermatt for the second time in two weeks

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Cold snap converts beach of Lake Michigan into an ice sculpture park

High humidity and low temperature enveloped the trees and grasses with ice and frost around the lake, forming natural-looking ice sculptures of various shapes.

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Heavy snow strands 430 people overnight on train in Japan

Around 430 passengers in Niigata Prefecture were forced to spend the night on a packed four-car train after it got stranded by heavy snow along the Sea of Japan coast.

France

How do ski resorts manage the risk of avalanches?

Explosives powerful enough to blow up a house are being used to keep skiers safe from the risk of avalanches.

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Thousands stranded in European ski resorts

Improving weather likely to end ordeal for tourists trapped for up to two days by heavy snow and avalanche alerts.

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Zermatt: airlifted to safety

Helicopters fly stranded tourists out of the Swiss resort.

France

Alps hit by 'once-in-a-generation' snow storms

Hundreds of roads across the Alps in France, Italy and Switzerland were closed, cutting off resorts and villages, after the kind of snowfall that only comes once every 30 years.

Switzerland

Zermatt: 13,000 stranded as high risk of avalanche threatens ski resor

The Swiss resort has been fully closed to traffic in and out since Monday evening after authorities raised the avalanche risk to the maximum level of five.

Algeria

Snow falls in the Sahara Desert

Not even the Sahara can escape January's cold snap

World News

From snow to sunshine: Europe's chaotic winter weather

From snow in Spain, to rising French and German rivers: Europe struggles under winter weather, but in Hungary temperatures hit unusual highs.

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Snow and wet weather wreak havoc across Europe

Heavy snow and rainfall have prompted several countries to issue alerts and order evacuations amid threats of floodings, landslides and avalanches

USA

US braces for cold New Year's Eve

A large swathe of the northern US from Montana to Maine is expected to see temperatures below -12 degrees Celsius - and that's putting lives at risk.

Germany

German boy electrocuted in snowball fight

A 16-year old German boy has died after starting a snowball fight with friends and touching an electric line above a train

United Kingdom

'Adverse weather' strands hundreds at London Stansted

Hundreds of frustrated passengers were stranded at London Stansted Airport on Wednesday night because of 'adverse weather'

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Snow funny business

Americans are behaving responsibly with huge snow drifts

USA

Record snowfall in the US

Across the United States snow continues to fall