NORWAY: A 21-year-old Norwegian man was fined 10,000 crowns ($1,300) for fraud because he accepted a contract killing job without intending to carry it out, police told Reuters

THREE children were killed and a woman critically injured in a fiery crash early yesterday in the US state of Washington after the woman’s boyfriend held them at gunpoint in the car and then doused them with gasoline and set them afire, authorities said.

BRITISH amateur champion Gary Wolstenholme appears to have fired up at least some of the American team against whom he will try for a slice of Walker Cup history at Ganton in Yorkshire this weekend.