The Royal and Ancient is lengthening the famous 17th hole of the Old Course at St. Andrews for next year's British Open.
With a birdie on the final hole, Jay Haas claimed a one-stroke victory over Tom Watson at the Senior Players Championship. Haas shot the day's best score, a 6-under 64, to capture the final major title of the year.
Na Yeon Choi of South Korea lost her seven-stroke lead, then rallied to shoot 1-under 71 Sunday to win the Samsung World Championship, her first LPGA Tour victory.
James Boyden, 17, was digging in the sand on a Rhode Island beach when the hole he was in fell in on him, nearly smothering him. Rescuers rigged an oxygen tank to keep him breathing until they could extricate him. "It got in my mouth, it got in my lungs," the boy said.
A look at the key hole in the first round of the PGA Championship:
A look at the key hole in the fourth round of the U.S. Open:
Police say a 6-pound chunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a Dallas home was part of a machine that was grinding up an unwanted tree nearby.
This year's ozone hole over Antarctica was the fifth biggest on record, reaching a maximum area of 10.5 million square miles in September, NASA says.
Two young boys drowned in a water-filled hole at the construction site of a new home, authorities said.
A Cedar Rapids man mowing his lawn has stumbled into a big hole — but the origin is a mystery. Rick Thompson discovered the hole on Wednesday. He says the grass seemed a little soft in that spot, and he blamed it on the rain. Then his leg sank up to his calf. He grabbed the lawn mower to stop himself from sinking any more.
A man who was stopped for speeding nearly evaded state troopers by burrowing into soft ground along Highway 169 and covering himself with dirt and leaves.
The Antarctic ozone hole is back to an average size, shrinking about 16 percent from last year's record high, NASA said Friday. But it's still the size of North America.
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team announced Thursday.
Protons accelerated by our black hole's magnetic fields slam into nearby hot gas (red), producing high-energy gamma rays (Image: NASA/CXC/MIT/F K Baganoff et al)
Matter can stably orbit closer to a spinning black hole, right, than a non-spinning one, left (Illustration: NASA/CXC/M Weiss)
This year's Antarctic ozone hole is the biggest ever, government scientists said Thursday. The so-called hole is a region where there is severe depletion of the layer of ozone — a form of oxygen — in the upper atmosphere that protects life on Earth by blocking the sun's ultraviolet rays.
The atmosphere will take up to 15 years longer than previously expected to recover from pollution and repair its ozone hole over the southern hemisphere, the United Nations' weather organization said Friday.
The ozone hole over the Antarctic is likely to begin contracting in the future and may disappear by 2050 because of a reduction in the release of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone-depleting gases, according to a team of Japanese scientists.