BUENOS AIRES - FIVE people died, 40 were injured and 300 evacuated when a storm packing high winds and hail tore through a region of central Argentina overnight, officials said on Tuesday.
LONDON - BRITAIN'S capital cleared the soggy remnants of a paralysing snowstorm on Tuesday as businesses counted the multibillion pound cost.
An estimated 6 million people skipped work on Monday when the largest snowstorm to hit London in 18 years stopped bus and subway service, grounded airliners and hobbled businesses.
PARIS - Some 2,000 Eurostar rail passengers were blocked for hours in the Channel Tunnel or stranded in northern France overnight because of heavy snowfall, the operator said Tuesday.
PARIS - FRENCH Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner will travel to Washington later this week for his first meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
