Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy  after a shot to the fifth green during the third round of the 2013 US Open  at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Matt Sullivan/Reuters

Some were left looking for miracles. Others were left seeking their destiny. One was left expecting a special birthday present. Phil Mickelson, with h(...)

Shad Dohl, of Colorado Springs watches as smoke rises into the air from the Black Forest Fire  near Colorado Springs, Colorado yesterday.  Photograph: Chris Schneider/Getty Images

Thousands of residents have fled and dozens of homes have been destroyed by three Colorado wildfires fuelled by hot temperatures, gusty winds and t(...)

Justice Minister Alan Shatter.

The spam presidency. As European citizens are made the miserable targets of unimpeded “direct marketing”, that may be how Ireland’s stint in the EU(...)

Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald , at the Convention on the Constitution, at Malahide, Co Dublin, yesterday. Photograph: Eric Luke / The Irish Times

Fine Gael parliamentary chairman Charlie Flanagan has said he will raise with Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan what he(...)

South Korea’s senior unification ministry official and head of working-level delegation Chun Hae-Sung (right) shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart Kim Song-Hye (left) during their meeting at Freedom House in Panmunjom, South Korea today. The sides  have agreed to hold working-level talks to prepare for a Cabinet-level meeting between the two divided countries. Photograph: South Korean Unification Miniatry via Getty Images

North and South Korea have agreed to hold a minister-level meeting on Wednesday as the two sides seek limited rapprochement following ratcheted-up (...)

Smoke spirals from a bus on fire   in Xiamen, Fujian province, yesterday, in which dozens of people were killed. Photograph: Reuters

The suspect in a commuter bus fire that rattled a prosperous Chinese port city wrote a suicide note saying he was unhappy and angry before dying in th(...)

US president Barack Obama meets with Chinese president Xi Jinping at The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, yesterday. Mr Obama said  he welcomed the “peaceful rise” of China and that, despite inevitable areas of tension, both countries want a cooperative relationship, as he and Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off two days of meetings. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

US president Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have begun a two-day informal summit in California. It is the first meeting between t(...)

President Barack Obama 
gestures as he speaks in San Jose, Calif. , Friday, June 7, 2013. The president
 defended his government’s secret surveillance
, saying Congress has repeatedly authorized the collection of America’s phone records and U.S. internet use
 yesterday. Photograph:  Evan Vucci/AP

Have you ever sent a text message using an iPhone to another iPhone? Maybe you’ve sent or received email using Hotmail or Gmail? Did you ever Skype a (...)

Ashford Castle general manager Niall Rochford. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy

As Niall Rochford, manager of Ashford Castle in Cong, Co Mayo says sagely, “Of the two words in the name of our hotel, ‘castle’ is the important one. (...)

Police officers search the campus of Santa Monica College following yesterday’s  shootings. Photograph: Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters

A gunman dressed in black killed four people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica last night before he was sho(...)

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