Ireland’s latest track sensation Mark Downey has said he and Madison partner Felix English are ready to take on the best at the UCI World Championships in Hong Kong next month.

In the yellow taxi - literally - from JFK when the text comes through.

Steven Avery, the convicted killer who is the subject of the Netflix series, Making a Murderer, has filed a wide-ranging appeal claiming that authorities used an improper warrant and that a juror was out to get him.

I’VE just returned from a whistlestop tour of Chicago. The main purpose of my trip was to collect a iBAM award which I was indeed very honoured to receive.

Seán O’Riordan’s article ‘Oireachtas grilling due over plan to close court’ (Irish Examiner, October 24) highlights a worrying trend in West Cork.

Not a puck did we see of Saturday’s All-Ireland hurling final replay.

There have been concerts, cover albums, books and films paying homage to his oeuvre and now an entire festival dedicated to the work of Leonard Cohen is coming to Ireland.

USA:

An hour after a woman reported her newborn son missing from a home in Wisconsin, police were questioning her step-sister — found with a prosthetic pregnancy belly, baby clothes, and a stroller, but no baby, according to court documents.

A Delta Air Lines flight carrying 60 passengers has slid off a taxiway in the snow after arriving in Wisconsin.

Irish women may not appreciate us, but these two sure do. Apparently we Irish men are wonderful!

There were no big surprises at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards.

Bob Dylan has backed President Barack Obama, predicting a landslide election victory.

The US Presbyterian Church has officially ordained a 56-year-old Wisconsin man as its first openly gay minister.

STEVE STRICKER joined an elite club of 23 members when he shot a Major championship record-equalling round of 63 for his first round at the PGA Championship.

AN ESCAPED convict allegedly murdered an elderly woman as part of a bizarre plot aimed at assassinating US President Barack Obama after a cross-country killing spree, court records showed.

CIARÁN Ó LIONÁIRD (Leevale AC) finished a close-up fourth in the tough ACC Conference meet at Franklin Park, Boston, where less than four seconds separated the top four finishers.

Mark Cavendish was able to look over his shoulder as he sprinted to yet another sensational victory on stage 18 of the Tour de France in Bordeaux today.

STEVEN GEIER says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev Lawrence Murphy coaxed the then-14-year-old student into a closet at St John’s School for the Deaf just outside Milwaukee and molested him, using God to justify his actions.

Former students of a US priest suspected of molesting up to 200 deaf boys have given details of his alleged offences against them.

A COMMUNITY united in grief yesterday paid a moving farewell to an Irish couple killed in a car crash in the US.

MADISON Du Berlais put his Cheltenham Gold Cup flop behind him as he capitalised on the fall of Denman to claim his third major prize of the season in the totesport Bowl at Aintree yesterday.

Quadruple-gold medallist Chris Hoy has urged aspiring cyclists to believe they can “do it clean”.

Everyone in the Laoshan Velodrome was ready to usher Chris Hoy into the company of Olympic greats – except the Scot himself.

Paul Nicholls is doing his best to secure the services of Ruby Walsh for Turko, whom he fancies “quite strongly” for the John Smith’s Grand National on Saturday.

A SHOOTING inside a home killed six people, and a toddler was found in a nearby vehicle with a gunshot to the chest, a police chief said yesterday.

A deadly gunfight on a bridge in the anarchy-filled days following Hurricane Katrina became a symbol of New Orleans’ loss of control. Now, more than a year later, seven police officers face charges in the shootings.

A STUDENT walked into a rural American school with a gun yesterday and shot the principal several times before he was taken into custody. All the children were reported safe.

The PGA Tour has added new tournaments in New York, California and Arizona to its 2007 late-season schedule.

A train depot which belonged to Johnny Cash is being returned to its original location so it can be transformed into a museum.

WHISTLING STRAITS, the venue for this week’s US PGA Championship, takes some finding.

Charlie Mulqueen discovers Whistling Straits is not unlike many of Ireland's finest courses.

A theory which says asthma is caused by a misplaced reaction to parasites has been bolstered by a surprise discovery reported today.

Changes in the way Europe picks its Ryder Cup team are even more likely following Luke Donald’s victory in America.

THE High Court yesterday approved an application by Jefferson Smurfit Group plc to reduce share capital by 10 million 30 cent ordinary shares to facilitate a 3.4bn takeover deal by Madison Dearborn Partners.

A tornado slammed into central Mississippi today, ripping homes from their foundations and causing injuries.