A round up of the headlines today: The father of an autistic boy has been left heartbroken after the attack on his son, the latest on the Dunnes Stores strike and Rory McIlroy is being tipped to revel in the spotlight at the Masters.

More than 750 plaintiffs are suing Johns Hopkins University over its role in a series of medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s during which subjects were deliberately infected with syphilis, gonorrhoea and other infections as part of study into sexually transmitted diseases (STD) without their consent.

A top US University is holding some 40,000 artifacts from the famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a Peruvian government official heading efforts to return the pieces said.

ORLA O’REILLY may take up the offer of a basketball scholarship at a US University after sitting her Leaving Certificate in June, but she says receiving yesterday’s Irish Examiner Junior Sports Star Award will spur her on to achieve even more in the future.

British novelist Salman Rushdie is to join Emory University in Atlanta and donate his archive to the institution, it has been revealed.