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Brutal winter causesmore chaos in EuropeLONDON: Europe has beenblasted by more snow and ice in abrutal winter that has causedtravel chaos across the continent.

Britons were enduring theircoldest night yet of the freezingwinter, with temperatures earlyyesterday expected to fallbelow the previous low point ofminus 18C.

The conditions also raised fearsfor energy supplies in Britain asgas was cut off on Thursday toalmost 100 major firms in a bid toavert a crisis.

The beleaguered Eurostar trainservice linking France, Britainand Belgium, faced further disrup-tions after a train got stuck in theChannel Tunnel.

Air travellers in Europe waitedanxiously to see if flights woulddepart after services in France,Britain and Ireland were can-celled on Thursday as treacherousconditions kept planes firmly onthe runway.

At Orly airport, south of Paris,flights were cancelled or delayed.

British media reported that at

least 22 people have died in acci-

dents related to the weather since

before Christmas when the coun-

try was hit by the wintry blast,

which the weather bureau said

was the worst cold spell since 1981.

Ireland has been swept by

severe weather not seen for almost

50 years, with forecasters warning

that a thaw was unlikely to come

for six or seven days.

Norway experienced tempera-

tures ranging from minus 15C to

minus 40C.

Rapistmust wait to hear sentenceEDINBURGH: A man hid his facein shame as he was led into courtover the rape of an Australianbeautician in Edinburgh.

Michal Marchlewski was due tobe sentenced yesterday for therandom daylight attack of lastFebruary, but a judge adjournedthe case until next week.

A couple believed to be relativesof his 24-year-old victim were incourt for the brief hearing and willhave to wait to see the homelessPolish national face justice.

Judge Lord Bracadale said a full

day’s hearing was needed forlegal argument on whetherMarchlewski should face an indefi-nite life sentence. Marchlewskiremained silent in Edinburgh’sHigh Court as an interpreter trans-lated proceedings.

The woman was living in Edin-burgh when she was abducted byMarchlewski and his cousinTomasz Kryczyk.

Just minutes away from homeafter work, she had pepper spraysquirted into her eyes and wasstruck in the face in a normally

busy roadway underpass. Her at-tackers dragged her into a make-shift den in the woods and tookturns to repeatedly rape her overeight hours and also trying todrain her bank account.

A day after the attack,Marchlewski told his accomplice:‘‘We should have killed her.’’

Marchlewski, 21, pleaded guiltylast year after Kryczyk, 26, com-mitted suicide in prison.

The woman and her husbandmoved back to Australia afterthe attack.

The buck stops withme, says ObamaWASHINGTON: President BarackObama has declared ‘‘the buck stopswith me’’ over intelligence flawsexposed by an al-Qaida attack on a USpassenger jet and ordered a sweepinghomeland security overhaul.

Releasing two reports on thethwarted Christmas Day bombing,Obama (pictured) said yesterday thatspy agencies did not properly ‘‘connectand understand’’ disparate data thatcould have busted the plot as it wasplanned by an al-Qaida affiliate inYemen. He said the probes revealedthat US analysts knew alleged attacker

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was anextremist and knew al-Qaida inYemen was plotting an attack — butcould not connect the two strands.

And as critics charge hisadministration is too soft onterror and slow to act after the attack,Obama said the US was ‘‘at war withal-Qaida’’ but promised terroristswould not force Americans to adopt a‘‘siege’’ mentality.

‘‘I am less interested in passing outblame than I am in learning from andcorrecting these mistakes to make ussafer,’’ Obama said.

Prodigy off to CambridgeLONDON: A 14-year-old mathsprodigy has been offered a place atCambridge University — which, ifhe accepts it, would make him theyoungest student there for almost230 years.

Arran Fernandez (pictured), wholives in Surrey, outside London,passed exams set by the universitylast year, and now need only pass hisA-level physics exam to enrol.

If he takes the place, he will be theyoungest undergraduate sinceWilliam Pitt the Younger studiedthere aged 14 in 1773 and went on tobecome prime minister.

Bosses held hostageBRUSSELS: Workers at an Anheuser-Busch InBev brewery in eastern Belgiumhave taken their bosses hostage after anannouncement of layoffs at the world’sbiggest brewer, local media reports.

‘‘We are demanding that the (com-pany’s) senior managers come here andcall off the layoffs,’’ Marc Devenne, aunion representative, was quoted assaying by the Belga news agency.

RTBF radio reported that about 10managers at the plant were being held ina meeting room.

Anheuser-Busch InBev announced onThursday that 300 of its 3000 employees inBelgium would be laid off due to declin-ing beer consumption in the country.