Britney Spears walked off the US 'X Factor' set after a contestant dressed in drag covered one of her songs.

Jurors have reached a verdict in the campaign corruption trial of former US presidential candidate John Edwards.

Former US senator John Edwards has gone on trial on charges he used illegal campaign contributions to cover up an affair with a mistress who became pregnant during his failed bid for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

JASON DUFNER is keen to dispel the funereal air surrounding him following last weekend’s USPGA Championship play-off defeat.

KEEGAN BRADLEY’S victory in the US PGA Championship on Sunday was cause for celebration in Kenmare in the early hours of Monday but otherwise the week in Atlanta was a bitter disappointment for Ireland’s best.

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON will swap the Bahamas for Greensboro, North Carolina this week as he bids to make up for a Majors campaign he marked for himself as a ‘D’.

A FEDERAL grand jury indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards yesterday over $925,000 (€634,117) spent to keep his mistress and their baby in hiding during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House.

Sweden’s Peter Hanson is up to 40th in the world, a rise of nine places, with his victory at the Czech Open.

ANTHONY KIM continues his return from thumb surgery this week knowing that American Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin is keeping a close eye on him.

Janet Jackson has been forced to cancel three more concerts on her North American tour as she continues to battle a mystery illness.

Singer Janet Jackson has postponed three more shows because of an undisclosed illness.

Omagh’s Fergal Rafferty shot the lowest round of his American collegiate career as he led the Sam Houston State University men's golf team to fourth place in the University of Texas-San Antonio Invitational in Kerrville, Texas.

DARREN Clarke has admitted defeat in his bid to join Padraig Harrington as Ireland’s representatives in the World Cup in Seville on November 18-21.

Truck driver Thomas Hamill, who has escaped from his captors in Iraq, was among seven employees of Halliburton subsidiary KBR, formerly known as Kellogg, Brown & Root, missing since an attack on their convoy west of Baghdad, about 90 miles from Tikrit.

Iraqi fighters tonight paraded a 20-year-old captured American soldier on video.

Kidnappers are holding an American soldier hostage in Iraq, it was reported tonight.

A massive wall at a US construction site fell on a group of workers as they ate lunch today, killing at least three of them.

FBI Director Robert Mueller says investigators have established the true identities of all 19 of the September 11 hijackers and have identified places outside the United States where the plot was hatched.