A stretch of Interstate 70 reopened Saturday morning, after near-zero visibility had forced officials to close all 160 miles of the westbound lanes between the Kansas state line and metro Denver and a 70-mile stretch of eastbound lanes from metro Denver to the plains town of Limon.

The owner of Heathrow Airport says it has canceled 30 percent of flights for Sunday amid forecasts for snow and severe weather in London.

A strong winter storm was expected to continue moving across the nation, bringing heavy snow to the Midwest and heavy rain to the Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys.

Temperatures fell to record lows across Europe as a week-long cold snap continues, claiming more than 220 lives with forecasters warned that the big freeze would tighten its grip at the weekend.

The Met Office's severe weather warning, at the second highest level, urges people to be prepared as forecasters warned of up to 15cm of snow.

Record-setting snowfall is accumulating across the Midwest where areas of many states are under winter weather warnings, advisories, or even blizzard warnings until at least Friday evening.

As the death toll from the weeklong tragedy rose to at least 169 on Friday, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the creation of feeding and medical-assistance facilities nationwide for the homeless.

The European Union is bracing for another potential energy crisis in the dead of winter as Russian gas supplies to some member states have suddenly dwindled by up to 30 percent.

A powerful winter storm swept across Colorado on Friday as it headed east, bringing blizzard warnings to eastern Colorado and western Kansas, and winter storm warnings for southeast Wyoming and western Nebraska.

Light snow started falling in Denver on Thursday as it braces for a major winter storm that is expected to blast some areas with up to two feet in a few days.

A strong winter storm will spread across the Central US, as a low pressure system moves off the Rocky Mountains and into the Plains on Friday.

Temperatures have plunged to minus 11C as Britain braced itself for more bitterly cold conditions ahead of a spell of snow this weekend.

Stores in Denver reported brisk business as customers stocked up on food ahead of a slow-moving winter storm that promised to bring nearly two feet of snow - an amount that would make it one of the heaviest snowstorms in the city's history.

Rescuers battling big waves and strong winds have pulled nearly 250 people from the sea off Papua New Guinea's east coast after a ferry sank.

Punxsutawney Phil might have predicted six more weeks of winter Thursday morning, but National Weather Service officials believe Westchester might continue with one of the warmest winters in recent memory.

For millions of Dallas-area residents, one of the most severe droughts in Texas history is no longer a concern - for now.

Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, Yuri Godin, of Charlotte, N.C., pumps gas at a Costco in Matthews, N.C. Costco Wholesale Corp.

The U.S. Drought Monitor has reclassified the Dallas-Fort Worth as being not in drought for the first time since July.

At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia's mountains, authorities announced Thursday, as the death toll from Eastern Europe's weeklong deep freeze rose to 114.

Unseasonably warm temperatures and a lack of snow would seem to put less pressure on Punxsutawney Phil, the central Pennsylvania groundhog set to make his annual weather forecast on Thursday morning.