1.   Horses pull carts up snowy hillsides.

2.   Suddenly, among the Dick Button figure-skating clips and scenes of people on snowy hillsides drinking from steaming cups, there appeared a brief glimpse of hockey.

3.   These days, however, when Christians fight Muslims across the snowy hillsides of the southern Balkans, not even Christmas can halt the bloodshed.

4.   Viewed through a window, an indistinct figure trudges down a snowy hillside, Chernobyl smokestacks in the distance.

5.   On Sunday, the oldest son of their six young children stood at their funeral on a snowy hillside outside the shelled village of Cemjan.

6.   The players and Coach Aime Jacquet were interviewed by French TV channels on snowy hillsides as colleagues hot-dogged it down the ski runs.

7.   Those who were not allowed into Macedonia are either living with local families, or camped on a snowy hillside in plastic tents, the agency said.