Milan, ItalyMOLMount Everest is losing its snow and ice at an alarming rate, researchers have found.A major new study of Everest and the national park that surrounds it concluded the area has been warming since the early 1960s - with many small glaciers having already disappeared. The researchers ...

The caption of this week’s column has nothing to do with the fairytale, where a beautiful Princess bites a poisoned apple and in so doing succumbs to a spell that causes a death-like sleep. The spell can only be broken by ‘love’s true kiss’, which is supplied by a handsome ...

LONDON  - Air, road and rail traffic across much of Europe suffered major disruptions on Monday as heavy snow and freezing weather gripped the continent.The problems at airports were particularly severe, with flights scrapped at Europe's busiest three hubs.Air passengers also faced long delays ...

ZAGREB American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin won the World Cup night slalom on Friday for her second victory of the season. The 17-year-old Shiffrin, the sensation of this season, finished with a combined time of 2min 01.73sec over the two runs, 1.19sec ahead of Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter, with ...

RESIDENTS in a northern Sweden county said they marked the first day of June by shovelling thick, wet snow.The residents of Vasterbotten County said they awoke Friday morning to find nearly 8 inches of snow on the ground, and residents across Sweden found temperatures no higher than 50 degrees, ...

JERUSALEM  - Stormy weather that carpeted Jerusalem and much of northern Israel and the Palestinian territories with snow, the first in four years, left two fatalities in its wake on Friday. A light dusting of snow covered the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, the Western Wall plaza and the alleyways ...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The usually frigid Canadian city of Winnipeg - often nicknamed Winterpeg - has been so mild and dry this winter that a popular snow-sculpting competition has been forced to truck in 200 loads of fake flakes for this year’s annual event.While Europe shivers ...

THE annual International Snow Sculpture Competition came to a close this morning as the tired and cold artists were forced to put down their tools and wait for a verdict on who would be crowned this year’s winner. Fifteen teams of five sculptors each spent much of the last week carving ...

QUETTA/ISLAMABAD – Various parts of the country including Northern Areas, Balochistan and Fata received heavy snowfall on Saturday and Sunday dropping the mercury level and multiplying the miseries of the people in these areas.The Quetta valley and northern and central parts of Balochistan ...

MIRPUR (AJK) - As the Azad Jammu & Kashmir is reeling under cold wave for past seven days, the Meteorological Department has forecast that the cold and dry weather conditions will intensify for next three days with the fresh snowfall at upper reaches of the librated territory on Sunday - today, ...

SRINAGAR  - Heavy snowfall over the past two days has closed down Indian-Held Kashmir’s main highway, stranding hundreds of travellers, officials said Sunday.So far there has been one weather-related fatality in the scenic Himalayan state after a nomad was killed in a snowstorm, police ...

ISLAMABAD (INP) - Recent rain and snowfall in various districts of Gilgit-Baltistan have brought the life to a halt. Increasing the intensity of cold, the recent rains and snowfall have disrupted communication links and triggered a shortage of foodstuffs in various parts of the province. The ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Heavy snow and rain in southwest China have forced over 79,000 people to evacuate their homes as traffic, power and communication lines remain disrupted, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday. In Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, heavy snow and icy rain caused houses ...

LAHORE Parts of the country Wednesday received first winter rainfall with experts predicting the wet spell to continue during the next couple of days. Scattered rain, with light and moderate intensity, was reported from upper parts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan ...

The metrological office has forecasted the torrential rain and snow in upper parts of country within next two days, a private TV reported. The areas included Gilgit, Baltistan, Kashmir, Chitral, Kalam and several parts of Balochistan and NWFP provinces, met office said. According to met office, the ...

LIKE a blizzard filling the sky, these pictures show one of natures most amazing displays as more than a million snow geese stop for a rest during their annual migration. The spectacular shots were taken by Mike Hollingshead in Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri. The ...

BERLIN (AFP) - China's Xue Bai won the women's marathon world title in a time of 2hours 25minutes and 15 seconds here on Sunday. The 20-year-old - whose name means 'white snow' - beat home Yoshimi Ozaki of Japan (2hr 25:25) while Aselefech Mergia of Ethiopia took the bronze (2hr 25:32). Xue, who ...