The 1937 built, former London and North Eastern Railway A4 pacific locomotive “Sir Nigel Gresley” makes its way at the head of the “Tynesider” charter service from Newcastle, northern England to London’s Kings Cross station, through a snow covered scene near York, following heavy snowfalls across the region, Saturday Nov. 27, 2010. Severe weather warnings for almost all of the United Kingdom were in place Saturday with heavy snow, widespread icy roads and bitter temperatures forecast. Some 10 inches (25 cm) of snow is expected to fall over higher ground, while parts of the Midlands and London will not escape a dusting. Overnight temperatures across the UK plunged well below zero again, after a day when much of the country was badly disrupted by the earliest widespread snow for 17 years. (AP Photo/PA, John Giles)
Youths get into the water with surfboards in Leca da Palmeira beach, outskirts of Porto, Portugal, Wednesday, Nov. 24 2010. Some public schools were closed with lack of teachers or auxiliary personnel due to a general strike protesting the government’s austerity measures aimed at controlling the country’s current financial crisis. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)
Public buses with the words “out of service” are parked in a bus station in Porto, Portugal, Wednesday, Nov. 24 2010. Very few buses were running Wednesday as most of public transport in Portugal was suspended due to a general strike protesting the government’s austerity measures aimed at controlling the country’s current financial crisis. (AP Photo/Paulo Duarte)
Police officers stand guard near the Reichstag building, Germany’s house of parliament, in Berlin on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. After Germany’s Interior Ministry raised the country’s terrorist threat level last week, Germany’s parliament said it is closing down the cupola of the Reichstag building to visitors over security concerns. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
Poppies are thrown in to one of the fountains at Trafalgar Square, London, Thursday Nov. 11, 2010, following the two minutes silence for Armistice Day. Millions of Britons fell silent to remember those who have died in war, as the clock struck 11am. The nation paused to mark the anniversary of Armistice Day, when peace returned to Europe at the end of the First World War, at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day” of 1918. (AP Photo/Rebecca Naden-pa)
Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the first man in the world to fly under a jet-fitted wing, speeds through the air to perform a looping in Bercher, western Switzerland, Friday, Nov 5, 2010. Rossy has completed two aerial loops using his custom-made jet-propelled wingsuit. Rossy jumped from a hot-air balloon above Lake Geneva and performed the daredevil stunt before landing safely with a parachute.(AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron, pool)
