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A polar bear enjoys the fresh snow in the zoo in Berlin. After a warm January, Germany was hit by a cold snap with temperatures plummeting far below freezing. Maja Hitij/dapd/AP
An ice-covered boat floats by at an iced landing stage on Lake Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland. Martial Trezzini/Keystone/AP
A cross-country skier enjoys the weather on Fichtelberg mountain near Oberwiesenthal, Germany, as he passes snow-covered trees. Uwe Meinhold/dapd/AP
A girl looks out of a window covered in frost on a bus moving in heavy snow in Belgrade, Serbia. Fresh heavy snow has triggered traffic chaos in Belgrade and other Serbian cities, further complicating relief efforts as Eastern Europe's harshest cold snap in decades spreads to the north of the country. Darko Vojinovic/AP
A woman protects herself from the cold wind during Saint Blas Day, a day when people buy sweets blessed to protect their health, in Pamplona, northern Spain. Alvaro Barrientos/AP
A man takes pictures of an ice-covered car on the iced waterside promenade at Lake Geneva in Versoix, Switzerland. Martial Trezzini/Keystone/AP
Icicles hang on branches of a bush on the banks of the River Elbe in Dresden, eastern Germany, Feb. 2, 2012. A cold spell has reached central and eastern Europe with temperatures far below zero. Norbert Millauer/AP
A man carries his skis near the frost covered Wendelstein church, Germany's highest church, on the 1838 meters (6030 feet) high Wendelstein mountain in southern Germany. Matthias Schrader/AP
A man is seen behind a frosty window on a tram on a cold winter day in Sofia, Feb. 1, 2012. Temperatures in Eastern Europe have dropped as low as minus 32.5 C (minus 26.5 F) in some regions, causing power outages, traffic chaos and the closure of schools and nurseries. Valentina Petrova/AP
Volunteers serve free meal for homeless people provided by the Russian Orthodox church, in a church in Moscow, Feb. 1, 2012. Homeless people are often treated to a hot meal by the church in cold weather in winter. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP
A gull flies over the frozen waters of the Black Sea near the shore in Constanta, Romania, Feb. 1, 2012. Temperatures as low as minus 32.5 C (minus 26.5 F) have frozen areas of the Black Sea near the Romanian coastline.
A municipal officer distributes soup for a homeless woman in Warsaw, Feb. 2, 2012. At least 139 people have died across Eastern Europe and Germany since the cold snap began, interrupting what had been an unusually mild European winter. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
A worker uses a blowtorch to heat frozen water pipes under Chisinau, Moldova, Feb. 2, 2012. Europe's death toll from a week of frigid weather rose Thursday as officials scrambled to figure out how to protect mostly homeless victims from the deep freeze. John McConnico/AP
A thermometer hangs hanging on the wall in a house north of Kiev, indicates an indoor temperature of minus 1 degree Celsius (30.2 degrees Fahrenheit). Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Reed sprouts are covered with thick ice at lake Zwischenahner Meer in northern Germany, Jan. 31, 2012. David Hecker/dapd/AP
A gargoyle gets an ice beard in a fountain in Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 2, 2012 Alessandro Della Bella/Keystone/AP
A Russian man swims in an ice hole in a lake outside St. Petersburg, Russia, Feb. 2, 2012. The temperature in St. Petersburg on Thursday was -22 degrees Celsius (-7.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Dmitry Lovetsky/AP
Aleksandr Akulich, a Belarussian militiaman, gives food to pensioner Raisa Pochekovskaya as he assists elderly residents of the village of Kolodishchi, on the outskirts of Minsk, Feb. 2, 2012. Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters
A member of Groupe de Secours Catastrophe Francais kneels by articles from a kit to fend off the sub-freezing temperatures near a homeless man and woman during the group's rounds on the streets of Lille, France, Feb. 2, 2012. Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
Waterfowl are seen on a frozen river in Minsk, Belarus, Feb. 1, 2012. Sergei Grits/AP
A man warms himself by sitting on a sewer pipe with warm steam at a bus station in Bucharest, Romania. Radu Sigheti/Reuters
A man carries snow taken from his yard in his horse-driven cart in Posta village near Bucharest, Romania, Feb. 1, 2012. Bogdan Cristel /Reuters
A man walks on a sea wall covered in ice on the frozen shores of the Black Sea in Constanta, Romania. Vadim Ghirda/AP
People walk through the historic center of Siena, central Italy, as snowfalls have been battering the country, Feb. 1, 2012. Paolo Lazzeroni/AP
A woman walks past a row of bicycles covered with snow during snowfall in downtown Bologna, central Italy, Feb. 2, 2012. The Russian gas company, Gazprom, has built up gas supplies to European states amid a severe winter in Russia and Europe. Reuters
A Romany child stands at the door of her makeshift home, which is an old, discarded factory, in Skopje, Macedonia, Feb. 2, 2012. Ognen Teofilovski /Reuters
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/24
In Pictures: Ultra-Orthodox Jews
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In Pictures: Huge hurricanes
In Pictures: Oh to be young again, Mr. President!
In Pictures: Facing the devastation of the Oklahoma tornadoes
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/22
Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 05/21
In Pictures: Sinkholes around the world
The frigid temperatures and snowfall that began in Eastern Europe last week have reached Western Europe, snarling airport traffic in Britain and turning Rome white.
It finally got really cold in Europe. Rome and the Netherlands recorded the lowest temperatures in 27 years and kids were making snowmen outside the Vatican. But the sudden arctic freezing last week in Ukraine, Hungary, and the Balkan states that steadily crept up the continent also took a toll, with 131 reported dead in Ukraine alone.
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