Golfing great and fisherman Mark O’Meara will launch details of the first-ever international casting championships in Ireland next week.

The US Army has discharged three soldiers for abusing prisoners at a detention centre in Iraq last May, a US military spokesman said.

TWO US soldiers were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and a city to the west, the military reported yesterday. A third was reported to have died of a non-hostile gunshot wound in a separate incident.

Celtic have taken the lead against St Mirren after 38 minutes through Tommy Johnson.