Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and protective glasses as the moon blotted out the midday sun in the first full-blown solar eclipse to sweep the US from coast to coast in nearly a century.

A Nasa robot ship will pluck a large boulder off an asteroid and sling it around the moon, becoming an ad hoc destination to prepare for future human missions to Mars, the US space agency said.

A YEAR on, up to 100 people are signed up as authorised drivers with Cork city’s first car-sharing scheme – and it looks like the project is going to be extended to Dublin.

The man charged with the murders of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman today arrived at court for his first hearing.

A decision by a branch of Prime Minister John Howard’s Liberal Party to do election deals with the anti-Asian One Nation Party could spread nationally, a Government lawmaker warned today.