Bosses at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin claim they have paid Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone the money owed to stage the United States Grand Prix next year, and have resumed work at the new purpose-built facility.

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has welcomed the return of the United States to the sport’s calendar.

FOR many professional athletes, it is the moment rather than the career that defines their legacy in the public’s perception, and Justin Leonard’s victory prance across the 17th green at Brookline nine years ago is quite definitively his moment.

TWELVE million jobs depend on the vital trade links between the US and the European Union, the next EU Ambassador to Washington John Bruton revealed yesterday.

EARLIER this month, in a Texas courtroom, a motion was filed to re-open Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that made abortion legal in the United States.