Corkman Niall Turner helped his University of Minnesota men’s golf team to a second consecutive national top-10 finish as he closed out his US collegiate career at the weekend.

There were some anxious moments for Irish golfers this week as both the University of Minnesota and East Tennessee State needed play-off victories to reach the men's national collegiate golf finals.

Wales’ Becky Morgan stayed in the top 10 after a third round 74, but it was two South Koreans who forged ahead at the Michelob ULTRA Open today.

Ten Irish golfers still have their eyes on the big prize in US collegiate golf after the fields were set this week for the NCAA Regional championships.

A trio of Irish golfers are reaping the rewards of team victories at their respective collegiate conference championships.

A judge has relaxed restrictions on John Hinckley, the man who shot former US president Ronald Reagan, to allow him his first overnight visits outside the Washington area in almost 25 years.

Guatemalan authorities abandoned efforts today to recover bodies from a deadly landslide that killed hundreds of people, and blocked villagers’ access to the site to prevent an outbreak of disease.

American Cristie Kerr claimed her fifth career title with an impressive five-shot win in the Michelob Ultra Open at the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Interrogators at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison viewed sleep deprivation, stripping inmates naked and threatening them with dogs as normal ways of dealing with ”the enemy”, a soldier attached to military intelligence there said.

THE man who tried to kill Ronald Reagan won permission for un-monitored daytrips with visits to with his parents, a decision criticised by the former president’s family.

THE man who shot President Reagan no longer poses a danger to himself or others, a hospital psychiatrist testified yesterday.

Northeast America was today shivering in the wake of its worst blizzard for seven years.