Problems began late on Friday as huge waves of snow storms swept across northern England.
It has since swept across Europe, prompting supermarkets in numerous countries to pull processed meat products from their shelves.
Last month, at least five people were killed in Tamil Nadu after a tropical cyclone swept across the state.
The tsunami waves swept across a wide swath of the Pacific Ocean, killing dozens and flattening or submerging villages.
The sell-off swept across markets and asset classes, while safe haven currencies strengthened and gold continues to set new highs.
There had never been epidemics of smallpox before the vaccine, but many outbreaks swept across Europe in the nineteenth century.
More than 40 people have been killed after a powerful typhoon swept across the southern Philippines, according to local media reports.
As the Enlightenment swept across Europe, many countries banned the practice and people, in general, found it "morally repugnant, " Peters says.
Tunisia is the birthplace of the Arab Spring, a series of revolutions that swept across northern African and the Middle East.
Euphoria swept across Sub-Saharan Africa when Barack Obama was elected the first black president of the United States in 2008.
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Ricardo Gardner came on after 69 minutes and he was immediately involved in a fine passing move which swept across the pitch.
For once, work took a back seat as the romance of the cup swept across the town and those who live there.
Farmers' distrust of the markets was exacerbated in 1996 by a new financial instrument that swept across the plains: the hedge-to-arrive contract.
Still, he appealed to those who may have had second thoughts about the magnitude of the change that has swept across the country.
Poland has been a success story amongst the transition economies, proving resilient to the cold winds of recession which have swept across Europe.
The economic miracle that began here in Japan after the Second World War has now swept across the Pacific and throughout the wider region.
Heavy snow showers have already swept across parts of eastern England and Scotland, forcing the cancellation of Middlesbrough's premiership clash against Fulham on Teeside.
The air that swept across the parched inland prairie was soft and cool, with just a hint of the humidity that soaks Florida in the summer months.
The wave of resignations following the credit crunch in the U.S. has swept across the Atlantic, claiming a victim at Barclays' investment banking division.
The case centres on the most deadly blaze on Black Saturday, on 7 February 2009, when wildfires swept across several areas in the state of Victoria.
Star spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, meanwhile, came within minutes of being caught up in the huge tidal waves which swept across the Sri Lankan coastline at Galle.
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The images of the assault of the 17-year-old girl, believed to be mentally ill, swept across the Internet last month and touched a nerve in South Africa.
Maybe many of these voters of color got swept up in the same wave of fear and ignorance that swept across the rest of the state's population.
George Washington University Professor Marc Lynch, in his new book Arab Uprising, refers to a shared and cohesive narrative of protest that has swept across the region.
The mention of "Black Saturday" at Yellowstone National Park brings back memories of Aug. 20, 1988, when immense fires swept across the park, burning more than 150, 000 acres.
All the while, however, the Prozac Revolution swept across America.
The images of the assault of the 17-year-old girl, believed to be mentally ill, swept across the Internet last week and touched a nerve in South Africa.
The most recent and tragic example was Super Typhoon Bopha that swept across the Philippines this week, killing at least 500 people and leaving tens of thousands displaced.
The scandal started in Ireland last month, when authorities there found horse meat in some beef burgers sold in large U.K. supermarket chains, but it has now swept across Europe.
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