Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods ended their ‘Duel at Jinsha Lake’ to the music of The Magnificent Seven but then Manic Monday may have been a better choice in Zhengzhou.

The violent storm system blamed for four deaths in three US states flooded parts of Texas as it moved eastwards, stranding drivers in high water and forcing dozens of elderly people to evacuate an assisted living centre.

A bus skidded off a treacherous mountain road in north-central Morocco, killing nine people and injuring 45 others, the official news reported today.

A section of tunnel collapsed in the Moscow subway today, causing a fire on a train, but no one was hurt, officials said.

A judge in the state of Montana set a tentative trial date for the man accused of plotting to kidnap the toddler son of Late Show host David Letterman.

A hotel used by Western contractors and journalists in the Iraqi capital Baghdad came under attack for the second time in 24 hours today but there were no injuries.

Space shuttle Columbia apparently disintegrated in flames over Texas today minutes before it was to land in Florida.