Heavy snow has blanketed northern and central China, disrupting travel and forcing schools to cancel classes. One person was killed on Wednesday in a roof collapse at a supermarket in Hebei province, state broadcaster CCTV said. Flights and intercity trains on which many of China’s commuters rely were delayed or canceled.
A railway strike in France is disrupting train services to Germany, due to industrial action running from Thursday evening until Monday morning. Several high-speed trains between Paris and Frankfurt and Stuttgart are not running, German rail operator Deutsche Bahn said on Friday. Some of the trains coming from the French capital will also terminate in Strasbourg, where any passengers travelling onwards to Germany would have to change to a regional train. The German high-speed trains operated by