LONDON - IT was hardly a blizzard, but it still shut down the city that beat the Blitz.

The biggest snowfall to hit London in 18 years idled the city's trademark red buses and Underground trains on Monday, stranded thousands of airline passengers, and raised the vexing question of why a predicted winter storm caught authorities so unprepared.

RIYADH - SAUDI Arabia on Monday issued a list of 83 wanted militants based overseas and called on them to turn themselves in to authorities and 'return to a normal life'.

Saudi television read the names and showed photographs of the wanted men, all Saudis except for two Yemenis, who it said had 'adopted the straying ideology', a reference to Al-Qaeda.