Each winter, Kirby Andersen decamps to his family ... colourful compositions on a frozen bay of Lake Ontario.

By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa, Japan For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains of central Japan have marked the depth of winter by celebrating the ...

The paintings in question are between 3,500 and 7,000 years old and are located on cliffs near a lake in southeastern ... a specially designed raft and, in winter, by walking on the ice.