A fourth person was found dead yesterday due to a fierce snowstorm that caused power outages in Turkey and traffic chaos in neighbouring Bulgaria, Anatolia press agency reported.
The frozen body of Mehmet Aksit was found near Akkisla in central Kayseri province after relatives reported the 78-year-old missing.
On Saturday the frozen body of Nuri Turhan, an 81-year-old Korean war veteran with Alzheimer's disease, was found in a mountainous region of Turkey's Aydin province, where he had become lost the day before. A 75-year-old man also died after suffering from hypothermia in the northwestern Turkish province of Tekirdag.
The snowstorm that began overnight Friday to Saturday also hit parts of Bulgaria, where a man suffering a heart attack died in the country's northeast region of Silistra when the ambulance he was in became trapped by snow.
The snowstorm led to power, gas and water cuts in Istanbul, a city of some 14 million people. (AFP)
Top fundraiser
A seven-year-old boy raised more than £50,000 (€57,000) to help survivors of the Haitian earthquake after seeing images of children being pulled alive from the rubble.
Charlie Simpson was so upset by the devastation wrought by the earthquake that he told his mother he wanted to do anything he could to help.
The boy set out to raise £500 for Unicef's Haiti appeal by riding his bike five miles around his local park - but the schoolboy's efforts inspired hundreds of people online who donated a total of more than £50,000 in just one day. (PA)
Swanned off
Bumping into the ex at a gathering, especially if you have your new partner with you, is not a social problem that famously faithful swans often experience.
But experts at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust centre at Slimbridge have witnessed a rare "divorce" between two Bewick's swans - with both parties bringing their new partners to winter at the site.
It is only the second time in more than 4,000 pairs of Bewick's swans studied over 40 years at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire that a separation has been recorded. (PA)
Fish 'n... marijuana
A US border inspector suspected something fishy about the truckload of white sea bass headed into San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico. It was a good hunch.
US Customs and Border Protection said they seized 320 kilos of marijuana hidden under the fish.
An officer at the Otay Mesa border crossing ordered the truck driver aside to put the cargo under X-rays and found 29 wrapped packages of marijuana hidden beneath the fish and a layer of ice.
The driver was a 34-year-old man from Ensenada, Mexico who was arrested for investigation of drug smuggling. (PA)
Playing the game
A suspected car thief was found playing Grand Theft Auto when he was arrested, and later he was charged with just that.
Polk County deputies in Central Florida investigating the theft of a 1998 Dodge Durango arrested 30-year-old Michael Ray Ekes. They found the Sports Utility Vehicle outside a home. Mr Ekes was inside the house, playing the popular video game. He was charged with grand theft auto, burglary and drug possession. (PA)
Record year for anti-Semitism
Israel yesterday said that 2009 was a record year for acts of anti-Semitism across the world, which were mainly sparked by its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip a year ago.
According to the report, the expressions of anti-Semitism consisted of acts of violence, the burning of synagogues, defacing of cemeteries and Holocaust memorials, as well as verbal assaults. It also considered as anti-Semitic, acts that sought to "delegitimise" Israel, including some protests against Israeli policies.
The report said 631 anti-Semitic acts were committed in France in the first half of 2009 compared with 474 incidents in the same period in 2008. In Britain there were 609 anti-Semitic incidents in the first half of 2009, compared with 276 the previous year. (AFP)
Meteorite strike
Doctors at a small US medical practice got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. No one was injured. Dr Frank Ciampi said the rock struck the two-storey building in Lorton, Virginia, a town not far from Washington, DC.
He said they heard a loud bang and found the projectile punched through the roof and ceiling, raining down pieces of wood, plaster and insulation. (PA)