New York/Calgary  - The bodies of seven snowmobilers were found Monday in the Canadian province of British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed.

Rescuers suspended their search for the eight victim because of heavy snowfall and dense, low clouds. The search was to continue Tuesday.

The group of 11 snowmobilers encountered two avalanches Sunday afternoon about 20 kilometres east of Fernie town in the Canadian Rockies. The men had been in the Harvey Pass area, a popular destination for snowmobilers.

New York/Calgary  - The bodies of six snowmobilers were found Monday in the Canadian province of British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

Rescuers were continuing to look for two more snowmobilers from the group who went missing following two avalanches. Three other men managed to escape with minor wounds.

All 11 men encountered two avalanches Sunday afternoon about 20 kilometres east of Fernie town in the Canadian Rockies. The men had been in the Harvey Pass area, a popular destination for snowmobilers.

New York/Calgary  - Eight snowmobilers remained missing on Monday following two avalanches in the Canada province of British Columbia, authorities said.

The first group of victims were trapped in the first avalanche on Sunday, and when others tried to pull them out they were caught in a second, the Canadian broadcaster CTV said.

Three of the eleven were able to free themselves and received medical treatment.

New York/Vancouver - Villagers in Canada's far western province, British Columbia, spent 12 days engineering the rescue of two horses stranded by two metres of snowfall, Canadian media reported Sunday.

The horses, an eight-year-old gelding and three-year-old bay mare, were discovered by villagers on Mount Renshaw before Christmas, trapped and starving in a valley, the Vancouver Sun reported.

A group returned to the horses with hay bales on their snowmobiles, then spent the following days digging out a kilometre- long path in minus-35-degree Celsius temperatures, the newspaper reported.

The horses were brought out by 11 pm Tuesday, two days before Christmas, and spent the holidays recovering in a barn.

Montreal  - The HD age dawned three years ago in the video game world and brought novel gaming concepts, breathtaking graphics and crystal clear sound. Video games had never seemed closer to reality. And then something happened: the technological prowess of the consoles was also harnessed to revive ancient classics of video gaming. That means that today's Xbox, Playstation and Wii aren't just showing off the latest in visual fireworks, but now also have been put to work on long-lost, but well-loved classic titles as well.

That includes a new iteration of the Prince of Persia game, designed to return the series to its roots. It's been almost 20 years since the prince first stumbled his way through dank dungeons to rescue his beloved princess.

Californis, Dec 27 : Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, the prime suspect in the Christmas Eve Santa-suit killings at a suburban L. A. home, who killed himself Thursday, had planned to take a flight from Los Angeles to Canada.

But his Santa suit melted on his body, leaving him with third-degree burns on both arms.

Pardo later shot himself at his brother's home, where authorities found 17,000 dollars on him and a plane ticket, FOX news quoted the police, as saying.