Perhaps it’s stretching the storyline a bit to focus on the proceedings that happened at about the same time yesterday morning on different parts of the Whistling Straits golf course. But literary license shall be exercised given the intriguing relationship between Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas.

Paul Dunne will head into today’s third round as Ireland’s leading competitor at St Andrews and closing in on the R&A’s Silver Medal for low amateur following another impressive day at The 144th Open Championship.

Gavin Moynihan might be considered a shoo-in for a second Walker Cup cap but the Dubliner knows he needs to start showing some form to make sure of his place at Royal Lytham and St Annes in September.

In the style of celebrities reading tweets about themselves, these University of Alabama professors read their students' reviews of their lectures.

FOR years, we’ve heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. 

As introductions to Major championship golf go, Paul Dunne could not have asked for better than have the world No 1 stroll up to the first tee and join him for a practice round.

It will not just be Fota Island Resort inviting Irish golf to party in two weeks’ time, the Irish Open hosts’ fellow Corkonians are also getting in on the act as a nation of golfers descends on the county for the prestigious European Tour event.

The weekend proved it again.

Unabashed sentimentality took the unofficial Super Bowl trophy for advertising brilliance, with draft horses and pickup trucks both putting a lump in America’s collective throat.

Rory McIlroy may be gearing up for his seasonal debut on the European Tour but it is PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem who has most to look forward to from the world No 1’s 2013 schedule.

Rich countries are to blame for climate change and should take the lead in a global climate pact, the head of the United Nations has said.

America’s Food and Drug Administration has approved a new weight-loss drug from Vivus that many doctors consider the most effective therapy in a new generation of anti-obesity pills designed to help patients safely shed pounds.

Violent weather including possible tornadoes roared across the US state of Alabama today, injuring dozens of people and killing at least two.

“ROLL TIDE,” one of my fellow hill walkers Shane said out of nowhere as we came down off the Temescal Trail, north of Santa Monica.

Tornado victims in splintered Southern US towns have said volunteers are ensuring they are well fed and warm at night, whether by refilling blood pressure medicine or patrolling neighbourhoods in a grocery-filled pickup truck.

US president Barack Obama said he had "never seen devastation like this" as he viewed the wreckage left by tornadoes which killed almost 300 people in the US South.

At least 291 people have been killed across six states – more than two-thirds of them in Alabama – in America’s deadliest tornado outbreak in almost four decades.

TORNADOES and thunderstorms have carved a trail of destruction across the southern US, killing over 220 people in one of the country’s worst weather disasters in years, officials said.

At least 85 people have died as storms devastated parts of the southern US.

US President Barack Obama declared an emergency today after a wave of tornado-spawning storms tore through the South, splintering buildings and killing more than 70 people in four states.

AN unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man of the Aids virus infection.

An unusual blood transplant appears to have cured an American man living in Berlin of infection with the Aids virus.

Gareth Shaw and Johnny Caldwell capped a stellar seven days in the United States on Monday when they learned their destination for the NCAA Regional championships later this month.

Belfast’s Johnny Caldwell got his final season under way as a University of South Alabama Jaguar with a top-25 finish as the University of Florida’s Sun Trust Gator Invitational.

Seamus Power continued his remarkable start to life in American collegiate golf with victory in the prestigious Jerry Pate National Intercollegiate tournament in Alabama this week.

The Earth’s protective ozone layer in the upper atmosphere is being destroyed more slowly, US scientists said, adding that it mirrors a decline in the use of certain man-made chemicals.