Scientists have found the first evidence that briny water may flow on the surface of Mars during the planet’s summer months. 

ENGLAND: Mortgage everything, get locked up in jail, and avoid Park Lane if you want to win Monopoly, according to the UK and Ireland champion.

Irish women’s golf has gone through many ups and downs over the years but there has nearly always been a big star to keep things ticking over, from a Philomena Garvey or Clarrie Reddan to a Mary McKenna or a Maureen Madill.

Croke Park has experienced many historic moments in its lifetime but none so futuristic as being able to view game highlights from your stadium seat.

Myriad forms of geoengineering — harnessing Earth’s natural systems for planet-wide change — are being investigated by scientists, trying to utilise ants and volcanic eruptions, writes Erin Biba

Everyone knows lizards can regrow their tails. But these scientists asked why humans couldn’t regrow stuff too.

Pádraig Harrington this week samples the incredible atmosphere surrounding the par-three 16th hole at the TPC Stadium course in Scottsdale, Arizona as he makes his debut at the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

YOU are having an intimate conversation, about how many people you’ve had sex with.

A family pulled from a sport utility vehicle that had been buried in a snowdrift for nearly two days said they feared they would not make it out alive.

Scientists say new views of the massive asteroid Vesta reveal it is more like a planet.

HOMETOWN pro Daniel Sugrue is still sweating on the final available invitation to next week’s Irish Open, presented by Discover Ireland 2011.

IT was not just in this part of the world that Rory McIlroy’s US Open progress was being monitored extremely closely last night.

A “T REX” leech with enormous teeth, a 6ft-long fruit-eating lizard and a glowing tree fungus are on a top 10 list of weird and wonderful new species published by scientists today.

INVOKING the spirit of Star Trek in a scholarly article entitled To Boldly Go, two scientists contend human travel to Mars could happen much more quickly and cheaply if the missions are made one-way.

SOUTH AFRICA’S beautiful Garden Route is much travelled by tourists.

A GENERATION ago they stood up for the highest principles of fairness, courage and decency.

SALES of household electrical gadgets will boom across the developing world in the next decade, wreaking environmental havoc if there are no new strategies to deal with the discarded TVs, cell phones and computers, a UN report said yesterday.

DARREN CLARKE is acutely aware of the life-changing scenario when your wife is diagnosed with breast cancer. Little wonder then that Clarke offered immediate support to Phil Mickelson and his wife, Amy, after she was diagnosed with the disease.

EVERYONE today could be descended from a small band of intrepid humans who headed for the beach 164,000 years ago, scientists believe.

Mexican archaeologists using ground-penetrating radar have detected underground chambers they believe contain the remains of Emperor Ahuizotl, who ruled the Aztecs when Columbus landed in the New World. It would be the first tomb of an Aztec ruler ever found.

Workers digging at the future site of a Wal-Mart store in suburban Mesa, Arizona, have unearthed the bones of a prehistoric camel that is estimated to be about 10,000 years old.

Muhammad Ali celebrated his 65th birthday last night watching his old friend Billy Crystal perform at Arizona State University.

A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbour an environment favourable to life.

Two finals, three semi-finals and an awful lot of heartache; the near misses are scratched into the soul of every Munster supporter. Yet a dip into the sporting archives reveals that those who follow the advice of ancient Scottish king Robert The Bruce, to try, try and try again if at first they do not succeed, are very often rewarded. Eventually. SIMON LEWIS investigates.

SOUTH KOREAN Jeong Jang was the player to catch at the midway stage of the Weetabix Women’s British Open at Royal Birkdale.

SENATOR John Kerry scored another decisive victory in the third and final election campaign debate with US President George W Bush.

President George Bush and election challenger Senator John Kerry clashed on domestic issues facing the United States in their third and final live televised debate overnight.

US President George W Bush and Democratic Senator John Kerry remained deadlocked in the White House race going into their final debate last night, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released yesterday.

PRESIDENT George Bush and his election challenger John Kerry were last night preparing for their third and final live televised debate.

President George Bush and his election challenger John Kerry were tonight preparing for their third and final live televised debate.

American Edward C Prescott and Norwegian Finn E Kydland won this year’s Nobel prize in economics for their work in identifying the driving forces behind business cycles.

A 216-year-old sculpture – the most accurate and detailed rendering of George Washington in existence – will undergo a laser scan this year to produce a precise, three-dimensional depiction of the first US president.

Nasa’s Opportunity rolled off its lander and on to the rusty soil of Mars early today, a week after the six-wheeled rover arrived on the Red Planet – and just hours after confirmation of its first major geologic discovery.

The US space agency plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to determine whether three of Jupiter’s icy, planet-sized moons have the potential to harbour life.

IBM today announced a €400,000 investment in university research, with Smurfit School, University College Dublin (UCD) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD) being the benefactors.

SCIENTISTS may have to revise the theory that warm oceans once washed over the surface of Mars, it was revealed yesterday.