16 August, 2009

Yang Yong-Eun became the the first Asian golfer to capture a major title, firing a two-under par 70 Sunday to record a stunning upset of Tiger Woods and win the 91st PGA Championship.The 37-year-old South Korean posted one of the biggest upsets in major golf history, defeating Woods by three ...

Rescuers on Sunday called off their attempt to reach an injured Spanish climber stranded on a Himalayan mountain in Pakistan for over a week due to bad weather and little chance of finding him alive.Oscar Perez, 33, broke his leg and a wrist in a fall on August 6 when ...

The Atlantic hurricane season gathered pace Sunday as forecasters said Tropical Storm Claudette -- the third system to form in two days -- swirled off northwestern Florida, expected to dump heavy rains.Ana, which just weakened from a tropical storm to a tropical depression, meanwhile raced toward the Caribbean, prompting storm ...

World number one Tiger Woods's quest for his first major title of the season and fifth PGA Championship crown got underway as he teed off with a two-shot lead in Sunday's final round.Woods and South Korean Yang Yong-Eun were paired together in the last group of the 91st PGA Championship, ...

US president and city slicker Barack Obama plunged into the American wilderness Sunday, gazing out with his two young daughters at the awesome void of the Grand Canyon.Topping off a weekend of hiking, fishing and white-water rafting in US national parks, the Obamas strolled along the top of the deep ...

Jamaican Usain Bolt added the world crown to his Olympic title as he scorched to victory in a world record 9.58 seconds in the men's 100m final at the World Athletics Championships here on Sunday.Billed as the first of three potential Berlin duels between Bolt and American reigning world champion ...

Iranian authorities released a young French academic who was accused of spying on bail on Sunday, the French presidency announced, after she spent six weeks in Tehran's notorious Evin jail.University teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss, 24, was arrested in Tehran on July 1 after taking part in post-election street protests and ...

Finnish authorities dismissed talk Sunday that the Arctic Sea was bearing a cargo of nuclear material, as Russia and NATO joined forces in an international hunt for the missing vessel.Jukka Laaksonen, head of the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, said firefighters conducted radiation tests on the ship -- last ...

An embattled President Barack Obama and his aides signaled Sunday a softening of the administration's insistence on a so-called "public option," or government insurance plan, as crucial to the reform of the US health care system.With angry debates dominating the airwaves and opposition emerging in the Senate, Obama said in ...

The Taliban on Sunday threatened for the first time to attack Afghan voting stations, escalating their bid to derail imminent polls despite deadly government operations against rebels.In the final campaign countdown, President Hamid Karzai took part in his first live television debate with two of his main rivals Sunday, promising ...