A sculpture promoting a climbing forest is covered by frost and snow as it hangs between trees in central Germany on Friday. Workers try to free a train that got stuck in the snow in central Germany on Thursday. "Because of heavy snow, in some parts over one metre high, some of the roads have been blocked," he explained. Hundreds of flights cancelled in GermanyIn Germany and Austria, where heavy snow caused fatal avalanches and major disruptions in the past few days, the situation was easing Friday. (Erwin Scheriau/AFP/Getty Images)In the eastern German city of Chemnitz, all burials at the municipal cemetery through Monday were called off because of snow.

Source: CBC News January 11, 2019 22:45 UTC