Dublin airport in Ireland is the latest to shut down because of the weather. All flights are currently suspended. At Europe's busiest airport, London Heathrow, more than 700 flights have been cancelled. It's also been revealed that the British government offered to send in the army to help clear the snow, but that the company that operates the airport, BAA, said no.
Travellers are being told not to turn up at Heathrow, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt or Amsterdam airports unless their flights have been confirmed.
The accounting firm Ernst & Young is being sued for $150m by New York state prosecutors for its role in the collapse of Lehman Brothers. From New York, here's Caroline Hepker.
New York's Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has accused one of America's leading accounting firms of helping to hide massive accounting fraud at Lehman Brothers in the years before the bank collapsed in September 2008. Mr Cuomo says the accounting giant advised Lehman Brothers on obscuring $50bn. Ernst & Young has made no comment on the case, but the attorney general wants the firm to repay fees it received, totalling $150m plus damages to investors.
An online campaign to spread Christmas cheer has resulted in thousands of people being evacuated from a shopping centre in California. About 5,000 singers hoping to take part in an impromptu performance of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus filled a shopping mall in Sacramento. But there were so many of them the building started to shake. The singers performed outside without bringing the house down.