Heavy snow caused chaos across Europe today, shutting down airport runways, forcing fast trains to a crawling 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 tail as big snow blanketed the French capital - a curiosity that has occurred several times in recent days during an unusually cold winter.
