Ciarán Ó Lionáird took his track education to a new level at the USA Track and Field Classic in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday night when finishing fifth in the featured men’s mile in 3:54.76.

SUDAN activists yesterday called on the United States and the international community to intervene in a region of Sudan inaccessible to outsiders, after a US group released satellite photos of what they said appear to be mass graves.

A suspect is in custody for the killings of five people in southern Tennessee in the USA, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said tonight.

EILEEN O’KEEFFE faces the most exciting assignment of her athletics career to date when she contests the final of the women’s hammer competition at the world championships in Osaka today (1.30pm Irish time).

IT will be difficult for those following in the footsteps of Alistair Cragg and David Gillick at this weekend’s European indoor championships in Birmingham.

CIARAN Ó LIONÁIRD will this week decide which US college’s offer of a track scholarship he will accept, buoyed by a scintillating debut on American soil at the weekend.

ALISTAIR CRAGG is relishing a testing return to the international track scene this month as he bids to put a bittersweet 2005 firmly behind him.

ALISTAIR CRAGG has conquered Europe and is ready to take on the world. The new European indoor 3,000m champion plans that assault in two weeks time when he renews rivalry with the double champion, Kenenisa Bekele, at the World cross-country championships in Saint-Etienne/Saint-Galmier.

IRISH MEDAL hope Alistair Cragg believes his chances of glory at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Madrid this weekend will be greatly enhanced by the presence of team-mate Mark Carroll beside him on the starting line.

ALISTAIR Cragg will begin his first indoor track season as a professional athlete against a quality field in Boston later this month.

THREE Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were jailed for up to ten years yesterday after a trial denounced by the defence as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness.

IRELAND’S Alistair Cragg continued his indoor season in flawless fashion with a double victory at the 2004 Southeastern Conference Championships in Lexington, Kentucky at the weekend.