WINTER

Unseasonably warm weather across the United States forced many retailers to offer deeper-than-usual discounts to clear out coats, sweaters and boots in January, pointing to tepid sales in the typically slow post-holiday month.

Justin Hoyer and Langely McNeal stole the show at the 2102 Winter X Games, which ended yesterday. Held in Aspen, Colo., the 2012 X Games didn't fail to make headlines between injuries, controversies and records.

Shaun White wowed fans late Sunday in the superpipe final at the Winter X games. White scored the first perfect score of 100 in Winter X Games history when he completed the first perfect back-to-back double cork. The 25-year-old snowboard superstar also won his fifth consecutive gold medal of the event.

U.S. skier Langely McNeal claimed that she was disqualified from the Women's Skier X final at the X Games because of a Sarah Burke tribute on her thigh and a hairtie around her boot.

Combating dry winter hair is a yearly struggle. Cold temperatures, frigid winds, low humidity and indoor heat prove to harm locks, making them dull, dry and brittle.

The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for the Northeast on Friday, and the first snowfall of the season for the area is bringing with it up to five inches of snow

Most men do not use sunscreen, which can potentially heighten their risk of developing skin cancer from winter sun exposure, according to survey results released Wednesday.

A highly-anticipated snow storm hit Seattle and the surrounding area Wednesday, dumping less snow than expected on the Pacific Northwest. Check out photos from the snow storm in the Pugent Sound area.

Check out photographs of some of the highlights of the 2012 Autumn/Winter show at the Hong Kong Fashion Week...

Snowfall in the Northwest is not uncommon in winter months, but sights of huge blizzards and traffic-crippling conditions are usually more attributed to the Northeast, but just where is all the snow?

NYC now has an estimated 10,000 homeless families, including 17,000 homeless on its mean streets on this freezing night that outreach struggles to shelter.

As the outside temperature plummets, so too can the will to brave the elements for outdoor exercise. Experts say as long as you layer up, drink up and tune into how cold is just too cold it shouldn't impact your fitness.

The first major winter snow storm has hit the Midwest region of the U.S., blanketing from St. Louis to Milwaukee to Chicago with snow and cancelling hundreds of flights at O'Hare and Midway airports on Thursday.

The SUV made by Land Rover's Range Rover brand, called by one pundit small but capable and luxurious, beat out other award finalists the BMW X3 and Honda's CR-V. The Evoque went into production in July 2011.

The winter season offers a lot of wonderful things - parties, decorations and snowflakes. With those wonderful things come awful things - hangovers, lethargy and harsh weather. All three of those factors can do some serious damage to delicate skin.

At first shiver, visiting Montréal out of season may seem crazy, but cast your fears aside and you'll find this French Canadian hub really heats up in the dark days of winter.

Nearly 50,000 hockey fans filled Citizens Bank Park.

The drama happened on New Year's, one day before the big game. Reporters covering the Flyers practice asked Sergei Bobrovsky who was starting in the goal. They were told, It's very confidential. The coach, Peter Laviolette, had planned to announce it today, just before the game. On Sunday, he said there was no decision yet.

The Balea Lac Hotel of Ice in the Fagaras Mountains, 300km (184 miles) northwest of Bucharest, Romania, is ready and opened to tourists for the current winter season.

Agricultural bankers and other players in the world's grain markets say fallout from the collapse of giant broker MF Global is changing cash grain trading and fueling calls for alternatives and reforms.

Google started the practice of wishing its customers on important occasions with a variety of doodles in 1998. In 1999, the search engine began its pre-Christmas doodle series called 'Winter Holidays.'