11.   Blizzards hit the mountains, stranding hundreds.

12.   Eight TAP Air Portugal flights were grounded Sunday, stranding hundreds of passengers on the first day of a partial strike by pilots, the airline said.

13.   Flights in and out of Bermuda were canceled Sunday afternoon, stranding hundreds of travelers.

14.   French fisherman blocked northern ports for a second day Wednesday but faced court action as their protest stranded hundreds of truckers and diverted car ferries.

15.   French fisherman blocked northern ports for a second day Wednesday, but courts ordered them to end their protest that stranded hundreds of truckers and diverted car ferries.

16.   French fisherman blocked northern ports for a second day Wednesday and persuaded the government to meet with them as their protest stranded hundreds of truckers and diverted car ferries.

17.   Hundreds were stranded at the Libyan-Egyptian border because they lacked travel papers or they did not have Israeli permission to enter the autonomous Palestinian territories.

18.   It had been shut off since Sunday night, stranding hundreds of foreign truckers, and lifted only briefly on Thursday.

19.   It had been shut off since last Sunday night, stranding hundreds of foreign truckers, and lifted only briefly on Thursday.

20.   It stranded hundreds of people at their places of work and in their cars.