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.
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.
Building a home near a moon crater or a lunar sea may sound nice, but moon colonists might have a much better chance of survival if they just lived in a hole.
Same ideological pathologies that drive al-Qaida overpowered Hasan's American identity.
A Johnston County woman is accused of setting her car on fire instead of letting the repo man take it. Officers say she then went inside her home, got a lighter, and came back and set the leaking gasoline on fire.
Authorities claim to have solved the mystery of a tree that disappeared into a five-metre hole at Vienna's Ringstraße.
A terrified pensioner ended up in hospital when a giant hole opened up in front of her as she drove down a Lower Austrian road yesterday (Mon).
Li Huiyan, of Chongqing, hired 30 villagers for six months to dig the hole in his kitchen, reports IC Media. He wanted to reach an underground river which he suspected was full of fish.
But the hole is an optical illusion, a three-dimensional drawing of a canyon, in an attempt to make careless cyclists hit the brakes rather than ride dangerously and ignore pedestrians.
NASA is scheduled on June 18, 2009 "to launch a space mission from Cape Canaveral" that will be "carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the lunar surface."
Judges have ordered funeral directors to pay damages to a family after trying to stuff their brother's coffin into a narrow grave.
An Australian country GP has saved a boy's life by using a household drill to bore into his brain after he was injured in a bike accident.
Police in northeast Ohio said a man who cut a hole in a ceiling and lowered himself into a pharmacy with a television cable foiled his plan to steal drugs when he unknowingly set off a motion detector.
One of Russia's most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear. The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin's coat.
Excerpt: History will show it was the squirrel who started this war. In an instinctive act of aggression, it occupied the territories known as the Jensens' attic. The Greendale family had no choice but to fight back.
The major press outlets are abuzz this morning with news of a major new security flaw that affects all versions of Internet Explorer from IE5 to the latest beta of IE8. The attack has serious and far-reaching ramifications -- and they're not just theoretical attacks.
Accidental nuke hole fire draws attention of the people !
All in the name of science. Sure this will no doubt lead to new discoveries much like other colliders but to possibly make a black hole here on Earth?!?! I mean, come on.
Pierce County Sheriff's deputies have a mystery on their hands. They are trying to figure out why vandals would use construction equipment to dig a hole and attempt to bury a dump truck.
When two friends innocently tried to connect both their rooms and their friendships, they instantly had found tore apart more then just their wall, their group of friends as well.
Officials are trying to decide whether to file charges against a Missouri man who fatally shot his wife while trying to install a satellite TV system in their home.
What makes this vast area of the universe a hole? The area shows almost no signs of cosmic matter, meaning no stars, planets, solar systems or clouds of cosmic dust. Researchers couldn't even find dark matter, which is invisible but measurable by its gravitational pull.
A poacher illegally hunting bears in Kashmir found the tables turned on him – when the bear fought back, and he became trapped in the hole he'd dug to trap the bear.
That sinking feeling... Former "Bachelor" star Sarah Welch plunges through a hole in the runway during a fashion show.
Looks like P. Diddy's isn't the only celebrity scent in the news these days. Courtney Love is planning to release a smell fairly soon, too. By which I mean, she's trying her hand at perfume.
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there.