High winds and heavy snowfall have been affecting much of the UK, stranding some motorists and blacking out homes.


US space agency Nasa releases images of Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft.


Debris from an Indiana fire station is strewn around a tree after severe storms in the US on Monday night. Tornadoes and thunderstorms further south killed more than 45 people.

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A horse-drawn cart makes its way along a snow covered road near Sangam, India, Friday, Feb. 8, 2008. Avalanches killed at least eight people and forced hundreds more to leave their snow bound villages Friday in this Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, officials said.


G.W. Warner, left, tosses a stuffed doll to Paulett Warner, right, as they cleaned up their tornado-damaged home, Friday, Feb. 8, 2008, in Lafayette, Tenn., prior to the arrival of President Bush, who was visiting the area.


The Tungurahua volcano erupts near Cotalo village in Ecuador's Tungurahua province, early Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008.


Swollen by heavy rains, Plum Creek cascades through a rocky gorge in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008. The threat of worsened flooding stretched across Ohio Wednesday, where two days of rain and melting snow left water covering some busy roads and pushed rain-swollen rivers and creeks past their breaking points.


Shoppers are seen through the frost-covered window of a grocery store in Racine, Wis., on Wednesday Feb. 6, 2008. A snowstorm that developed slowly through the night picked up steam after Wednesday's morning commute and was expected to dump about 18 inches in parts of southern Wisconsin before it ends during the evening.


Rudy Rozman of Crested Butte, Colo. stands on a snow bank as he shovels snow from a roof and window on Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. The storm dropped nearly 2 feet of snow in parts of Durango and closed several mountain passes in southwest Colorado.

Bron: CBS News | Gewijzigd: 13 februari 2017, 12:21 uur, door Joyce.s