The 26-year-old killer who gunned down classmates at an Oregon college spared a student and gave the “lucky one” something to deliver to authorities, according to the mother of a student who witnessed the rampage.

A gunman opened fire last night at a community college in Oregon, killing 13 people and wounding 20, in the latest mass killing to rock a US college, officials and media said.

SOMETIME around 1982 or maybe 1983, just after Felipe Gonzalez Marquez became Spain’s first socialist prime minister after Franco’s dictatorship ended, two of the venerable picadors of old Cork met on St Patrick’s Street. 

US indie heroes The Decemberists talk gun laws and Cork roots with Ed Power.

Doha has been awarded the right to host the 2019 World Championships after beating off competition from Eugene and Barcelona.

Brittany Murphy's last film is being released in cinemas.

Olympic champion Usain Bolt was unable to claim victory in his first Diamond League race of the season as Justin Gatlin continued his impressive form by edging out the Jamaican to win the 100 metres in Rome.

Derval O’Rourke is the standout name of the athletes pre-selected for the European first league team championships at the end of the month.

Phillips Idowu’s bid for an elusive Olympic gold medal ended with a whimper this morning as he crashed out in triple jump qualifying.

Ireland's 1,500 metres runner Ciaran Ó Lionáird questioned whether he wanted to remain in the sport after finishing second last in his heat at the London Olympics.

CHRISTMAS is coming, the geese are getting fat, please put a penny in the old man’s hat.

TYSON GAY returns to action after a six-week injury lay-off at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene in Oregon today determined to prove he can challenge the sprint dominance of Usain Bolt.

Triple Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt will compete in his first track race since recovering from a car accident at the Festival of Excellence meeting in Toronto tomorrow.

THE mother of Edel Kelly — the woman who died after her cancer went undiagnosed at Ennis Hospital, Co Clare — has described her hairdresser daughter as her best friend.

USA Track & Field will send a drug-free team to Beijing next month for the Olympic Games, according to the governing body’s acting chief executive Bill Roe.

Justin Gatlin is making another challenge against his drug suspension tomorrow in a bid to be allowed to compete at the USA Olympic trials in Eugene beginning next weekend.

IRELAND has secured a second boat at the Olympics as the Irish men’s lightweight four (LM4-) put in an impressive performance in the final qualifying regatta in Poznan, Poland yesterday to confirm their place in Beijing.

Ireland’s heavyweight pair (M2-) of Sean Casey and Jonno Devlin, and lightweight double (LM2x) of Eugene and Richard Coakley both missed out on a place in tomorrow’s finals of the Olympic qualifier, when finishing fourth and fifth respectively in their semi-finals today.

World 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell will delay the start to his season until the end of June because of injury.

World record-holder Asafa Powell and Olympic champion Justin Gatlin will clash over 100 metres for the first time this year in next month’s Norwich Union British Grand Prix.

Paula Radcliffe has been given the all-clear to restart training after receiving treatment in Germany for a back injury.

Reigning Olympic 100 metres champions Maurice Greene and Marion Jones suffered unexpected defeats over their gold medal winning distances in the Prefontaine Classic meeting in Eugene.

A man suffering from dementia killed his wife and another man before shooting himself in his head at a US elderly care centre where they all lived, police said.

THE Parents Defence Campaign will hold a protest at the GPO in Dublin on Saturday, June 14, to complain about the treatment of fathers in the family law courts.

United Airlines is to axe 1,250 jobs and close three reservation centres as part of cost-cutting efforts aimed at saving the troubled US carrier about $100m (€102.7m) a year.

GERALDINE HENDRICKEN will end her season in whirlwind fashion taking in the Golden League meetings in Brussels on August 30 and Berlin on September 6 before rounding things off in Rieti two days later.

Anti-Semitic hate literature postmarked in New York was mailed to at least seven Jewish households in an Oregon city, police said.