SWIMMING: Irish record holder Sycerika McMahon is the notable absentee from the National Long Course Championships which start tomorrow.

Three people, including a police officer and the suspected gunman, are dead following a shooting near the Texas A&M campus in College Station yesterday, police and university officials say.

To Dr Michael L Vickers, a dead cow lying in a remote pasture of a South Texas ranch in 1981 was no different from the hundreds of other felled cattle he had seen.