Snowboarder Torah Bright won Australia’s first gold medal of the 2010 Winter Olympics, picking herself up after a first run fall to beat much-vaunted American duo Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler in the women’s halfpipe.

THERE will be mixed emotions for Brian O’Brien when the final whistle sounds at Lansdowne Road tomorrow.

Ministers in the Cabinet of newly elected Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany were set to be sworn in today as part of his push to raise living standards and apply “truly Social Democratic” values to Hungary.