Some of the stranger stories from around the globe

The view from the top looks as spectacular as ever for Jordan Spieth.

USA: One is a building with bars. The other is a building with a bar. A very drunk woman apparently had trouble telling them apart and ended up in a southwestern Michigan jail cell-

Rayven Kahae from Hawaii now has a new hand - thanks to 3D-printing.

SURF’S UP

The father of a 15-year-old boy who stowed away in a jetliner’s wheel well has arrived in Hawaii, officials said.

The father of a teenager who survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii tucked in a jet’s wheel well has said his son missed Africa, where he used to live, and was struggling at school.

US airport chiefs have launched a major security probe after a 15-year-old boy climbed into a airliner’s wheel well, then flew for five freezing hours from California to Hawaii.

Officials say a 16-year-old boy is “lucky to be alive” and unharmed after flying from California to Hawaii stowed away in a plane’s wheel well, surviving cold temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen.

A German woman who lost her arm in a shark attack died yesterday, a week after she was bitten while snorkelling off Maui, Hawaii.

Rock legends Steven Tyler and Mick Fleetwood have convinced a Hawaii Senate committee to approve a bill to protect celebrities from intrusive paparazzi.

The 3,200 people living on a rural Hawaiian island that will soon be purchased by billionaire Oracle Corp chief executive Larry Ellison have a laundry list of what they’d like to see him provide.

World-champion cliff diver Orlando Duque dreamt of a world series diving competition on the Aran Islands and this summer his dream will come true.

Oprah Winfrey is considering a move to Hawaii.

David Hearn shot a second successive 66 to take the clubhouse lead on the second day of the Sony Open in Hawaii, but it was Brendon de Jonge who stole the limelight as he charged up the standings with a superb 62.

THOUSANDS of people fled their homes along the California coast yesterday as a tsunami triggered by the massive earthquake in Japan began hitting the US West Coast after rolling through Hawaii.

Tsunami waves have hit Hawaii and swept through the island chain after an earthquake in Japan sparked evacuations throughout the Pacific and as far as the US western coast.

Mortal remains

Leonardo DiCaprio organises a holiday to Hawaii with his celebrity friends every January.

Carlos Santana didn’t mind that it rained on his wedding day.

Paris Hilton was among passengers evacuated from a plane after a knife was found on board.

Katy Perry and Russell Brand are reportedly planning to marry in Maui in late October.

America's National Science Foundation has picked Maui’s Haleakala mountaintop in Hawaii as the site for the world’s largest solar optical telescope.

LONG-HAUL operator Tropical Sky could have picked anywhere to feature in their latest holiday promotion, but chose the tiny unspoilt island of Grenada to offer chill-out breaks to Irish clients.

Woody Harrelson and his longtime love have officially wed.

Owen Wilson is set to join best pal Woody Harrelson by becoming a resident of Hawaii.

Woody Harrelson is planning a strict starvation retreat on a remote Hawaiian island.

The pilots of a Hawaii inter-island flight from Honolulu to Hilo failed to respond to air traffic controllers 11 times as it overshot its destination by 15 miles while flying at an altitude of 21,000 feet.

Vijay Singh was delighted as he started the new season with a two-stroke victory at the $5.5m (€4.2m) Mercedes-Benz Championship to become the most successful over-40-year-old in PGA Tour history.

High winds threatened to halt play in the second round of the €4.2m Mercedes-Benz Championship but Vijay Singh breezed through to claim the lead.

A strong earthquake shook Hawaii yesterday, jolting residents out of bed and causing a landslide that blocked a major road.

Woody Harrelson and wife Laura Louie are celebrating the birth of their third daughter last weekend.

Ocean water, long believed to have come from icy comets beyond Neptune, may have originated in asteroids found in warmer regions much closer to Earth, according to astronomers in Hawaii.

Paris Hilton's publicists are trying to silence a Hawaiian taxi-driver who claims the socialite urinated in his cab.

WITH the champion’s lei draped around his neck, Stuart Appleby didn’t have to say a word to size up his feelings about his reign at Kapalua.

The wing that fell off a seaplane before it crashed, killing all 20 people on board, had cracks in the main support beam that had probably gone unseen for a long time, US federal investigators said today.

Vijay Singh showed why he is ranked number one in the world by claiming a two-stroke lead after the second round of the PGA Tour season-opening Mercedes Championships in Hawaii.

Big-wave surfing means huge prize money and crazy risks as riders go in search of the 100-foot wave. Simon Lewis reports from California.

Stuart Appleby survived a late challenge from Vijay Singh and won the season-opening Mercedes Championships.

Vijay Singh, last year’s leading money winner on the PGA Tour, continued his sizzling form with a spectacular nine-under-par 64 in the second round of the season-opening Mercedes Championship.

Northern Ireland’s Darren Clarke is one shot off the lead after the first round of the PGA Tour’s season-opening Mercedes Championship.

Darren Clarke has survived a pre-Christmas visit to Lapland and a post-Christmas accident on a new toy going into this week’s Mercedes Championship in Hawaii, the first tournament on the 2004 US Tour schedule. And, having set himself a target of improving his world ranking from 11th to 5th before the end of the year, he needs to get cracking!

DARREN CLARKE has survived a pre-Christmas visit to Lapland and a post-Christmas accident on a new toy going into this week’s Mercedes Championship in Hawaii, the first tournament on the 2004 US Tour schedule.