• Wales and south-east England are also expected to see some snow during Monday, with the far south-west of England and Northern Ireland being the only regions untouched by the severe cold.

    BBC: Light snowfall in parts of Wales, and more expected

  • Knowledge of the language is kept up mainly by people like him who belong to the Xibo people from China's far north-west.

    ECONOMIST: One hundred years on, only a few native speakers remain

  • It is Shuncheng Jie, the Muslim quarter and one of very few old streets left in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan in the far south-west.

    BBC: China's changing face

  • Also be sure to spend some time in other neighbourhoods besides hectic Times Square such as the very charming, tree-lined far West Village, trendy Soho and Nolita and the uber-hip and historic Lower East Side.

    BBC: Honeymoons for urbanites

  • And the general feeling is that for most Croats, co-operation with the Tribunal - and by extension with the West - is far more important than standing up for those they see as their wartime heroes.

    BBC: Croatia's war crimes legacy

  • One attack occurred late Thursday and into Friday near Para Village, not far from the west-central African nation's border with Liberia, according to the United Nations.

    CNN: Thousands flee after Ivory Coast attack

  • Scores of soldiers have been killed this year and the rebels have carried their battle from the mainly Kurdish south-east as far west as Izmir.

    ECONOMIST: Turkish politics

  • He stressed that the crisis is having "far-reaching effects" in West Africa and the Sahel, and that it has heightened the terrorism threat in the subregion.

    CNN: Malian security forces push into rebel territory

  • The second is a round of enlargement that will bring in a different set of new members: not, as on previous occasions, other more-or-less prosperous West European countries, but the far poorer ex-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's mid-life crisis

  • Consider the Millerds, a family of Mormons who live not far from the Allens in south-west Georgia.

    ECONOMIST: The growth of home-schooling

  • In Hillsboro, Texas, about 15 miles from West, hotels and storefront windows displayed fliers celebrating the life of firefighter Jerry Chapman, who was killed fighting the blaze, an indication that the mourning and sense of grief go far beyond the close-knit community of West.

    CNN: Texan town tries to rebuild with community, spirituality

  • Thus the 63rd and 72nd Missile Brigades of the Syrian army - holders of the Scud and SS-23s that could carry chemical warheads - are centred south-west of Aleppo in the far north of the country.

    BBC: Could US remove Syria chemical weapons?

  • The Potters provided a far sterner test than West Brom and Wigan - Chelsea's previous two opponents in a free-scoring start to the season - but they were unable to stop Carlo Ancelotti's side chalking up an eighth straight home league win.

    BBC: Chelsea 2-0 Stoke

  • Wrap-up speaker Cornel West went so far as to compare him to Europeans(ph), and Thomas Hardy.

    NPR: A Tribute to James Brown

  • By the end of the month, there were sit-ins throughout the South, as far west as Texas.

    NEWYORKER: Small Change

  • As the general election of June 2nd showed and salmon played no small part in it, just as grain marketing did in the prairie provinces for the Canadian west, the other enemy is far-off Ottawa.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • Although home to less than a fifth of all Germans, and far fewer foreigners than the west, the eastern states accounted for nearly half the 746 violent crimes linked to far-right extremists last year.

    ECONOMIST: Germany

  • Fortunately, Roscoe found work a hundred miles west, at Beaver Camp, near the town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula, about as far west as one could go in the then-forty-eight states.

    NPR: Edward R. Murrow: Broadcasting History

  • The Misratans will be seeking recognition for their recent ordeal, while those in the far east and west will be seeking recognition for more long-running discrimination at the hands of the Gaddafi regime.

    BBC: Libya after Gaddafi: Who's in charge?

  • "West Virginia is making a decision that has far-reaching consequences to send a message to people what you expect from your next president, " she said at a stop in Clear Fork, West Virginia.

    CNN: Obama takes superdelegate lead on eve of expected loss

  • The continent has, at a pace far outstripping the west, adopted mobile payment systems in huge numbers - more than 15 million in Kenya alone.

    BBC: Technology reporter, BBC News

  • Mr Bush got far more votes from the resource-rich states of the south and west than he did from Whitman country, the environmentally-sensitive states of the north-east.

    ECONOMIST: Christine Todd Whitman

  • "If a guy is checking out a woman it's annoying, but that's how sexual predators who are honing their craft test how far they can go, " says activist and filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West.

    BBC: Why do men shout at women in the street?

  • And just as the past started to fade and it seemed as if this place was a far cry from the old-world apple strudel feel of the former West, I overheard a conversation.

    BBC: A tale of two Berlins

  • Traders and crusaders going East and West brought columns, friezes, statues and mosaics from far-flung places that were incorporated into the church.

    FORBES: Can a network build a potentially huge new product?

  • Fire extinguishers have become the accoutrement of choice for police patrols (see picture) as far away as Lhasa, the Tibetan capital some 1, 200km south-west of Songpan.

    ECONOMIST: China��s restive Tibetan regions

  • They agree that talks on a final deal should not be further delayed, but they want to enter them in control of the one-third or so of the West Bank they have so far been allotted.

    ECONOMIST: Barak��s chance

  • They were open to all free-born, Greek-speaking males, attracting athletes not just from the Greek mainland and surrounding islands, but also from the most far-flung Greek colonies, everywhere from Iberia (Spain) in the west to the Black Sea in the east.

    CNN: The Ancient Olympics

  • Liverpool almost put the game out of sight six minutes after the break when - with Matthew Upson off the field receiving treatment - Kuyt found Yossi Benayoun at the far post, but the former West Ham midfield man could not keep his volley down.

    BBC: West Ham 0-3 Liverpool

  • Thirty-five years ago, an obscure desert in China's far west known by its Uighur name of Lop Nor suddenly became a national symbol.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Visions of China: Lop Nor

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