The UN Security Council should congratulate North Korea for its nuclear test instead of passing “useless” resolutions or statements, the country's UN ambassador said today.

NEIGHBOURING countries yesterday cautioned North Korea against carrying out a planned nuclear test, while a top South Korean security official said there was no sign a test was imminent.

Neighbouring countries today cautioned North Korea against carrying out a planned nuclear test, while a top South Korean security official said there was no sign a test was imminent.

As darkness fell on the field, Se Ri Pak could be seen rising on the leaderboard at the Jamie Farr Classic.

British interest ended today with defeats for Catriona Matthew and Laura Davies in the HSBC Women’s World Matchplay Championship at Hamilton Golf Club in Gladstone, New Jersey.

South Korea’s Se Ri Pak ended a two-year victory drought when she beat Australia’s Karrie Webb in a play-off to win the McDonald’s LPGA Championship at Bulle Rock in Maryland.

North Korea today abruptly cancelled groundbreaking test runs of trains across its highly-guarded border with South Korea, citing an atmosphere of confrontation and war.

Fifteen women, including mothers of children killed in last year’s Beslan school seizure, left a courtroom today where they had staged an overnight protest to demand that high-level officials also be prosecuted in the case.

PADRAIG HARRINGTON is all for it; Greg Norman, Ernie Els and Colin Montgomerie are all against it.

STEPHEN GALLACHER missed equalling the lowest round of his European Tour career by incurring a bizarre one-shot penalty for hitting the ball when he did not mean to.

WORLD number one Annika Sorenstam completed a career Grand Slam when she won her first Weetabix Women’s British Open yesterday with a final-round 70 at Royal Lytham and St Anne’s.

NORTH KOREA condemned a recent summit between US President George W Bush and South Korea’s president, and warned yesterday of an “unspeakable disaster” for the South if it confronts the communist state over its nuclear weapons programmes.

South Korea coach Guus Hiddink may be playing down the relevance, but there is one bit of black-and-white footage which is in danger of being worn out in the Far East over the next couple of days.