Heavy snow causes chaos across Europe

Heavy snow caused chaos across Europe today, shutting down airport runways, forcing fast trains to a crawl and leaving cars skidding through icy, slushy streets on a weekend where many people were trying to head home for the holidays.

Frankfurt airport cancelled around 40% of flights and Paris’ Charles de Gaulle cut air traffic by a quarter as heavy snow blanketed the French capital – a rarity that has occurred several times in recent days during an unusually cold winter.