BRITISH AIRWAYS IN IT FOR LONG HAUL — BARBADOS ANYONE?

Flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee is being blamed for two deaths in Pennsylvania and numerous water rescues and road closures around a soggy north-eastern United States.

IT WAS late in the evening, though not so late that the food and beverage hadtaken an edge off the senses.

THIS country enjoys the best links golf courses in the world — it just needs to communicate the message better across the Atlantic.

Hurricane warnings went out across a large part of the Caribbean today as a major storm grew in force.

KIM COLLINS will provide a formidable challenge for Paul Hession in the sprints when Cork City Sports relocates to the plush surroundings of the CIT Track in Bishopstown on Saturday week.

Campaigners are today planning their next step after the US Supreme Court decided not to review the case of a British grandmother on death row in Texas for killing a young mother.

A British woman on death row in Texas has lost a federal appeal, moving her closer to execution for the abduction and death of a woman whose child she had also snatched eight years ago.

Dwain Chambers failed to win the world indoor 60metres title by just 0.03seconds as Nigerian favourite Olusoji Fasuba took the title in Valencia.

Hurricane Dean is heading towards Caribbean islands today with 100mph winds.

Matthew Hayden’s second World Cup hundred in four days helped to put Australia in a dominant position in their rain-interrupted Super Eight match against West Indies.

IF YOU wanted to pick a year in which modern environmentalism got started you could do worse than opt for 1971.

Japan today vowed to press ahead with a campaign to overturn a two-decade ban on commercial whaling, after a slim majority of nations in the International Whaling Commission voted to overturn the moratorium.

The 20-year-old ban on commercial whaling remained intact today, but the International Whaling Commission entered unknown territory after a majority of its members voted to overturn the moratorium.

A COALITION of conservation-minded nations has managed to thwart Japan’s attempt to form a pro-whaling majority on the International Whaling Commission and reverse the moratorium on commercial hunting that went into effect two decades ago.

A coalition of conservation-minded nations have managed to thwart Japan’s attempt to form a pro-whaling majority on the International Whaling Commission and reverse the moratorium on commercial hunting that went into effect two decades ago.

Japan and other pro-whaling nations will today try to rebound from two early defeats to win a majority at the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting and pave the way for commercial whale hunting, which was banned 20 years ago.

IRELAND have been drawn against host nation the West Indies, along with Pakistan and Zimbabwe, in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

World 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell will take on Olympic champions Justin Gatlin and Shawn Crawford as well as world sprint champion Kim Collins in a world-class 100m in Rome next month.

DENIS O’BRIEN’S Digicel mobile operation scored a major coup yesterday as it snapped up the Caribbean business of American mobile giant Cingular Wireless.

Hurricane Ivan grew into the deadliest of storms today, packing winds of 160mph as it headed straight for Jamaica and left a devastated Grenada with 20 dead.

Michael Hughes is adamant Northern Ireland should not be written off ahead of their latest World Cup qualifying campaign.

Several dozen people protested outside the European Union’s offices in Guyana yesterday against EU plans to drastically cut the price of sugar imports from the Caribbean.

Hip-hop superstar Lil’ Kim was been barred from leaving her native America to perform a gig in the Caribbean by a federal judge on Friday.

Sunderland goalkeeper Michael Ingham has been included in Northern Ireland’s 20-man squad for their tour to the Caribbean at the end of the month.

World sprint champion Kim Collins has accused America of covering up positive drug tests in their athletics team.

A new airline was operating its first services between London and the Middle East today.

Northern Ireland will participate in a three-match tour of West Indies this summer after all.

Olympic 100 metres gold medallist Marion Jones and men’s world 100m champion Kim Collins will compete at the Norwich Union London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace.

2006 World Cup qualifiers draw:

2006 World Cup qualifiers draw:

MANY flights were cancelled yesterday as a volcano on Montserrat plunged surrounding islands in the Caribbean into a gritty haze.

Free Caribbean holidays are being offered to America's rescue workers.

Christian Malcolm just failed to claim Britain's third medal of the World Athletics Championships in a thrilling 200m final in Edmonton.

A cruise ship believed to be carrying more than 1,000 passengers has run aground off the Caribbean island of Nevis.