A partially frozen American Falls in sub-freezing temperatures is seen from Niagara Falls. At least 18 people have died in the US state of Tennessee as cold-weather records continued to fall across the eastern half of the country, according to officials. The fatalities were caused by hypothermia-related conditions, car accidents or from an inability to reach medical care due to icy roads. Cold-weather... 

The American Midwest and Northeast have braced for a “polar vortex,” a megastorm that is expected to bring record low temperatures on Monday. So far extreme weather conditions have claimed at least 16 lives, paralyzed travel and caused power shortage. For those exposed to the inclement conditions frostbite and hypothermia will be a danger as – 31°C is expected in North Dakota, –... 

A boat carrying Tunisian migrants enters the port of Lampedusa, Italy. About 50 illegal migrants, including women and children, have been feared dead after their boat sank off the coast of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. Italian rescue services said on Friday that search operation continued by the coastguard who had called on private vessels and teams to join them, AFP reported. Earlier in... 

Cars covered in snow in central Chile At least 16 people have died in Chile so far this year due to freezing temperatures in the country’s capital city of Santiago, according to officials. On Sunday, one homeless person died on La Paz Street in the capital’s downtown area and another one died some five blocks from the government palace of La Moneda. The second victim was a 50-year-old man found... 

People take pictures of waves on a frozen sea in Constanta, 230 kilometres east from Bucharest, Romania on February 1, 2012 At least 223 people have died during a seven-day cold spell in eastern and central Europe where temperatures are expected to plummet even further over the weekend. Most of the victims are from the European Union’s poorest countries, including Ukraine with as many as 101... 

Seagulls fly over frozen sea as icicles covers a fence in the city of Constanta, 230 kilometers east of the Romanian capital Bucharest, on February 1, 2012. Severe cold spell has killed at least 83 people in Europe as temperatures dropped to below minus 30C (minus 22F) in some eastern regions of the continent. Ukrainian officials on Wednesday reported that the number of the deaths attributed to the...