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Stranded air passengers have spent the night at airports in Paris and Brussels after freezing weather severely disrupted Christmas travel. Some 200 people slept overnight at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris , which cancelled 400 flights because of snow and ice . Flights and trains were also disrupted in Belgium , where significant snow fell overnight, and in Germany . Conditions were expected to ease throughout Christmas Day. Airport managers described the extremes of snow and ice at the airport as "exceptional". Problems were made worse on Friday as a strike by workers at France's main anti-freeze factory disrupted crucial supplies. Those left at Charles de Gaulle airport overnight were given camp beds and blankets as they saw in Christmas inside the terminal building. Junior transport minister Thierry Mariani visited exhausted travellers at the airport just before midnight, seeking to explain the situation to would-be passengers. "Since Roissy [...

A good number of countries is highly dependent on Electricity generated from Coal. South Africa is on the top of the countries which produces electricity from coal.  South Africa has been producing 93.00% of its total electricity demand from coal. Some other top countries those are using coal as source of electricity are: Poland    92%,     PR China    79%, Australia    77%, Kazakhstan    70%,    India    69%, Israel    63%, Morocco    55%,        Czech Rep    60%, Greece    52%,        USA    49%,        Germany    46%.

ZURICH: FIFA rankings released on Wednesday for September (August position in parentheses): 1, Spain (1) 2, Netherlands (2) 3, Germany (4) 4, Brazil (3) 5, Argentina (5) 6, England (7) 7, Uruguay (6) 8, Portugal (8) 9, Egypt (9) 10, Chile (10) 11, Croatia (14) 12, Greece (12) 13, Italy (11) 14, Norway (22) 15, Serbia (13) 16, Slovakia (27) 17, Paraguay (15) 18, United States (18) 19, Slovenia (19) 20, Ghana (23)