Five off-piste snowboarders were killed after being caught in an avalanche in Colorado, the Denver Post reported on its website Saturday. The newspaper said the five fatalities occurred near the Loveland Ski Area, 56 miles (90 kilometers) west of Denver, citing the local sheriff's office. A sixth snowboarder with the group had survived the avalanche, the Post reported, while alpine rescue teams were on the scene. rcw/mdl

An avalanche in an off-piste ski area killed one person in Tromsoe in Norway's far north on Sunday while a second person escaped unharmed, police said. "One person was found and underwent medical treatment at the site," but was later "confirmed dead", police spokesman Gunnar Baardsen said. The second person caught in the avalanche was not injured. Baardsen gave no information about the identity of the dead person, but Norwegian media reported it was a man in his 30s. Avalanche warnings have been issued in the area on an almost daily basis lately, Baardsen said.

Russia sent more than 160 rescuers to a remote Siberian mountainside on Tuesday in a frantic hunt for six teenage boys who are feared dead after being trapped by an avalanche. The search with sniffer dogs was however hampered by bad weather and the risk of further avalanches, the emergency situations ministry said. The boys aged 14 to 18 were overtaken by the avalanche Sunday as they descended the Ak-Bashtyg mountain in the Tyva region of southern Siberia, the central Investigative Committee said.

* Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch star in "Prince Avalanche" * Misfits pair up for tedious job in remote forest * Director David Gordon Green adapts Icelandic comedy By Mike Collett-White BERLIN, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Cinema has a new odd couple in "Prince Avalanche", a low-budget film set in the remote, fire-ravaged forests of Texas and starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as an unlikely pair of workers painting markings on a seemingly endless road.