A US woman has been charged with removing body parts from the corpse of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend.

A US woman has been charged with removing body parts from the corpse of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend.

Two Benedictine monks from the US are building a new community in Ireland, writes Louise Roseingrave

JULIANNA Barwick is contradictory. Her music is esoteric, often eerie. In person, however, Barwick is chatty, upbeat. and sociable, so the isolation of Iceland, where she recorded her new album, Nepenthe, drove her to distraction. She would sit in cafes, watching the world pass. The loneliness worsened as the weeks passed. She worried for her sanity.

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At least 30 people have been taken to hospital after an explosion at a Louisiana chemical plant, officials say.

Lady Gaga is using a wheelchair after having emergency surgery on her hip.

Lady Gaga is to undergo emergency surgery.

Lady Gaga is ready for a "victory lap" around the US.

GOLFERS arriving at Atlanta Athletic Club yesterday for this week’s PGA Championship were greeted with heat in the American south reaching three-digits on the heat index.

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has hosted a private gathering at an Arizona resort for American billionaires who have pledged to give away at least half their wealth.

A massive storm billed as the worst in decades left vast areas of the US paralysed by snow and ice today.

Martin Maritz and Tyrone Mordt shared the lead after round one of the Joburg Open today with both carding faultless nine-under-par 62s, although they came on different sets of 18 holes at the Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club.

The gunman believed to have killed four people at a Colorado megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the centre a few years ago and was sending it hate mail, police said.

Sweden’s Carl Pettersson and American Jason Bohn have both pulled out of this week’s USPGA Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Although British Open champion Padraig Harrington admits he is currently nowhere near the level that saw him raise the Claret Jug at Carnoustie, he concedes the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio has provided him with excellent preparation for next week’s US PGA Championship.

TIGER WOODS insists he has no worries about breaking his habit of not playing a tournament in the week before a major.

Vijay Singh broke clear of the field before the turn before cruising to a two-stroke victory over Rocco Mediate at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando today.

Storms have stopped play at the US Open in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just as Tiger Woods was attempting a six foot put on the tenth green to save par.

Hale Irwin is the outright leader of the US Open after five hours' play at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Tee-off times for the first two rounds of the 101st US Open golf championship at the Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Times are all Irish time.

Barring a last-minute setback, Colin Montgomerie was on his way to the US Open today following a weekend of intensive treatment.

Colin Montgomerie is doubtful for the US Open next week after he quit the Compass Group English Open after fewer than four holes today.

After another successful raid on Europe the incomparable Tiger Woods is now on countdown to what he hopes will be his fifth successive Major victory.

This year’s Open championship is likely to be the acid test for the Royal and Ancient Club, golf’s ruling body outside America, on whether something has to be done to limit how far the game’s top professionals now hit the ball.