ROMANIA-WEATHER-FEATURE

Firemen clear the snow covering a house in Carligu Mic village, 100km east from Bucharest, on February 11, 2012. The death toll caused by the Siberian cold wave continued to widen in Romania, to 57 deaths, said the Ministry of Health yesterday. Some 35,000 people were isolated in the east, their supplies of food and water being depleted, according to local authorities. Fifty communities were without electricity. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL MIHAILESCU