There have been some statements from either side of the Atlantic in recent days that have been giving pause for thought regarding the relative status of the European Tour and its bold and brash American cousin, the PGA Tour.

The Government’s decision to shut down its embassy to the Holy See is political not religious, writes TP O’Mahony

THE bodies of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, two award-winning war photographers killed by a mortar attack in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, were yesterday being transported to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

A LOOK at the world’s most powerful earthquakes and tsunamis:

MILITARY aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in northeastern Australia, as the prime minister promised new assistance yesterday to the 200,000 people affected by waters covering an area larger than France and Germany combined.

Ben Carpenter sits in his motorised wheelchair which became entangled with the front grille of this truck in Michigan.