For every overcooked approach shot, every tee ball that landed in the pine straw, every drop in the drink at Rae’s Creek, Tiger Woods would come up with another shot to remind everyone why he can never be counted out. Woods may not win this year’s Masters, but he will certainly be in the mix after Friday.
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The semifinals for the Cricket World Cup could effectively be decided two weeks ahead of schedule and some fans are trying to sell tickets they no longer want. This isn’t how the organisers of the first World Cup in the Caribbean saw it happening. The Super Eights were expected to be a close-run competition to decide the final four teams.
Students could not get into a California high school on Friday after vandals plugged locks on all exterior gates and doors with super-strength glue. ”A teacher who always gets there early called me on my cellphone and said, ‘Guess what?”’ said Carlsbad High School principal Margaret Stanchi. ”But I didn’t guess this.”
Navy divers early on Saturday searched the sunken wreckage of a cruise ship for the bodies of a Frenchman and his daughter who disappeared after the vessel foundered on a volcanic reef — the only two people missing despite what passengers described as a chaotic evacuation in the Aegean Sea.
Some in agony, others in ecstasy, Christians from Jerusalem’s Old City and Rome to the Philippines and Mexico City marked Good Friday with prayer, processions and pleas for peace. The calendars of five major Christian faiths coincide with one another this year, something that happens only once every four years.
A suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq suicide bomber smashed a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas into a police checkpoint in Ramadi, killing at least 27 people — the ninth such attack since the group’s first known use of a chemical weapon in January.
Aid agencies stepped up relief efforts in the Solomon Islands on Saturday as aftershocks rocked the region and fears grew of dysentery among the thousands of homeless tsunami victims. Nearly 5 500 people were left homeless in the region by the seismic event, which killed at least 34 people and wiped out entire villages.
Hit American Mob drama The Sopranos begins its final run of episodes this Sunday with millions expected to tune in for the climax of one of most successful series in United States television history. Speculation is rife about who will get ”whacked,” who will be ”made” and who will become a ”guest of the government”.
A cut in United States interest rates before the summer looked less likely on Friday after a sharp increase in the number of jobs created last month. Employment figures for March showed the US economy added 180 000 jobs, compared with forecasts of a 130 000 increase.
A 102-year-old United States woman became the oldest person yet to hit a hole-in-one during a golf outing, US media reported on Friday. Elsie McClean of Chico, California, has been playing golf since she was in her 20s and had never hit a hole-in-one before.