BP robots have attached a new, tighter-fitting cap on top of the gushing Gulf of Mexico oil leak, raising hopes that the flow of crude polluting the water can be stopped for the first time in nearly three months.

Calmer conditions did Lee Westwood no favours as first-round play resumed at the Shell Houston Open in Texas.

The US mum who drowned her five children in a bathtub wants to be executed because she thinks it will destroy Satan.