Scott ready for sunny Riviera after Switzerland snow
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PACIFIC PALISADES, California  - Former winner Adam Scott is in confident mood for this week's Nissan Open, despite taking a four-week break from the game in snow-bound Europe.
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The arrival yesterday of badly-needed snowfalls across much of the Alps was a relief for the thousands of Britons booked to go skiing in Europe over the coming two weeks.
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SIERRA NEVADA, Spain  - Austria's Marlies Schild was poised to collect the women's slalom World Cup on Sunday after setting the first-leg pace in the discipline she has dominated all season.
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Next month's men's races scheduled in the French Alps resort of Val d'Isere have been canceled due to a lack of snow, the International Skiing Federation (FIS) announced on Wednesday.
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SOELDEN, Austria  - Bode Miller should finally be going his own way when the Alpine skiing World Cup season starts on the glaciers above Soelden this weekend.
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England prepares for wintry weather, with heavy snow expected to fall across much of the country.
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Volunteers operate shades to help keep the ice cool Thursday at the Men's Skeleton World Cup race at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City. The challenge of keeping the ice cool may grow somewhat during the coming week, with high temperatures forecast to stay in the 40s.
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The sprinters will have a last chance to shine on Friday's 199.5-km sixth stage from Semur-en-Auxois to Bourg-en-Bresse before the Tour de France enters the Alps.
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INSIDE THE RHONE GLACIER, Switzerland  - Tourists   are flocking to Switzerland's highest peaks to see formidable   Alpine glaciers melt away before their eyes -- and sometimes,   onto their heads.
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As an experienced backpacker, Frank Horath knew to check the weather forecast before leaving on an overnight hike with family members to an alpine lake in the Sierra National Forest. The forecast said the weather would be clear in the mountains through the weekend, with a storm moving in Monday. They would be home well before then, he thought.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is to spend Christmas on the banks of the Nile amid tight security and a swarm of paparazzi seeking intimate shots of his new companion, former supermodel Carla Bruni.
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The Yorkshireman was second in first qualifying but will attempt to go one better in today&#39;s superpole session as he looks to win the title at the last round of the season at Magny-Cours.
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By Roger Petterson  It's getting to be time to plan your spring break, not a wild college student party but something for the family, an excuse to head south to overindulge in food that makes you think of warmer weather, to be outdoors without your parka and mittens.
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Renault&#39;s Jarno Trulli claimed pole position for Sunday&#39;s Belgian Grand Prix as weather conditions played into his hands in qualifying on Saturday.
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Travel: Gemma Bowes discovers that a night in a Swiss igloo is pretty hot stuff
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GOSSAU, Switzerland  - Squeezing 150 people into  Vince Peiro's flat in the foothills of the Swiss Alps would be  a very tight fit -- hence the tent city sprouting outside in  the July evening sunshine.
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Snow was forecast Wednesday in the higher elevations of Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming as well as the Central Rockies as a Pacific cold front moves southeast through the region.