PGA Championship 2024: Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa atop crowded leaderboard heading into final round - General news - NewsLocker (2024)

Brace yourselves – we are in for a wild finish at Valhalla.After a wild third round that was filled with low scores, some of which even matched gold records, two men are tied for the lead, with 13 others within five shots of the lead at the PGA Championship.Xander Schauffele and Collin Morikawa, the co-leaders at -15, will tee off at 2:35 p.m. Schauffele is vying for his first major victory (he did win Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021).Morikawa won the 2020 PGA Championship and 2021 Ope

News live: Australian passenger describes being ‘flung to the roof and then to the floor’ on flight to Singapore

Teandra Tukhunen was asleep onboard SQ321 from Heathrow to Singapore when the plane struck severe turbulence. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastChris Bowen says nuclear energy is ‘slow, expensive and risky’Chris Bowen is also asked about the latest CSIRO report released today, showing electricity from nuclear power in Australia would be at least 50% more expensive than solar and wind.CSIRO and Aemo have lo

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new lawsuit from ex-model alleging sexual assault

Crystal McKinney’s suit is sixth complaint in six months against rapper, claiming he assaulted her in 2003 at his New York studioHip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a new lawsuit from former model Crystal McKinney who says she was forced to perform oral sex on him at his recording studio in New York City in 2003. This comes just days after Combs says he took “full responsibility” for beating ex-girlfriend Cassie after a video of that incident surfaced.The new

Queensland MP closes electorate office due to threats after alleged drugging and sexual assault

Brittany Lauga says ‘threatening and offensive safety concerns from members of the public’ have forced the closure of her Yeppoon officeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Queensland Labor MP Brittany Lauga has closed her local electorate office in Yeppoon because of threats from members of the public after she alleged she was the victim of drugging and sexual assault.Lauga, the member for Keppel, announced on Tuesday afternoon that the electo

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Howler monkeys dropping dead, falling from trees due to excessive heatwave: report

The extreme heatwave in Mexico is not only affecting the environment, it's wreaking havoc on the howler monkeys and causing them to fall dead out of trees, the Associated Press reported."They were falling out of the trees like apples. They were in a state of severe dehydration, and they died within a matter of minutes," wildlife biologist Gilberto Pozo described what he witnessed to the AP.In the city of Tecolutilla, Tabasco state, it was reported that the dead monkeys started appear

Inside Kharkiv as Russia advances | podcast

Shaun Walker reports on Russia’s recent offensive in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine“We were taking a stroll in Shevchenko Park, which is in the centre of Kharkiv. It was a really nice warm, sunny day. People were sitting outside chatting and drinking coffees.”Shaun Walker, the Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent, was walking around a park in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when he heard an explosion in the distance. Continue reading...

New Zealand man filmed trying to ‘body slam’ an orca in actions described as ‘idiotic’

Department of Conservation fines 50-year-old after seeing footage of stunt on social media, and described his behaviour as ‘a blatant example of stupidity’The actions of a New Zealand man filmed jumping off a boat in what appears to be an attempt to “body slam” an orca have been described as “shocking” and “idiotic” by the country’s Department of Conservation.In a video shared to Instagram in February, a man can be seen jumping off the edge o

Bird flu detected at Victorian egg farm as authorities test for pathogenic H5N1 strain

Authorities are yet to determine if the strain of avian influenza detected at the Meredith farm is the high pathogenicity subtype H5N1Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBird flu has been detected in Australia but authorities are yet to determine if it is the same highly pathogenic strain that has spread to every other continent, including Antarctica.The avian influenza virus was detected at an egg farm ne

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Ireland and Spain expected to reveal plans to formally recognise Palestinian state, reports say

Irish and Spanish leaders set to speak on Wednesday morning amid warning from Israel that recognition would play into the hands of HamasSee all our Middle East coverageIreland and Spain are expected to announce plans to formally recognise a Palestinian state on Wednesday, according to multiple reports, amid warnings from Israel that recognition will “fuel extremism and instability”.The three Irish government leaders – premier Simon Harris, deputy premier Micheál Martin a

Judge dismisses felony convictions of 5 retired military officers in US Navy bribery case

Five retired military officers admitted taking bribes from Malaysian contractor.

Blinken willing to work with Congress on potential sanctions against ICC

Republicans seek help from secretary of state after prosecutor Karim Khan requests arrest warrant for Israeli PM NetanyahuThe Biden administration is willing to work with Congress to potentially impose sanctions against international criminal court officials over the prosecutor’s request for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over the Gaza war, Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, said on Tuesday.At a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing, Republican Lindsey Graham told Blinken he

Sharp rise in type 2 diabetes among people under 40 in UK

Diagnoses up 39% in six years, with condition fuelled by obesity, health inequalities and junk food, study findsThe number of people under 40 being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the UK has risen 39% in six years, fuelled by soaring obesity levels and cheap junk food.Britain has one of the highest obesity rates in Europe. Two in three adults are overweight or obese and the NHS spends £6bn a year treating obesity-related ill-health. That is forecast to rise to £10bn a year by 2050.

Neil Gaiman’s Coraline to become ‘dark, spangly’ stage musical

Playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas’s adaptation of the novel will open at Leeds Playhouse and tour in 2025Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novella Coraline is to be turned into a musical that will tour the UK in 2025. The children’s fable, which found a new audience 15 years ago as a stop-motion animation by Henry Selick, has been adapted by playwright Zinnie Harris and composer Louis Barabbas.Harris fell in love with Gaiman’s dark fantasy when reading it to

More than 1,000 slave labourers may have died in Nazi camps on Alderney, review finds

Experts conclude hundreds more died on Channel Island, a British crown dependency, than previously thoughtMore than 1,000 slave labourers may have died on British soil at the hands of the Nazis in the second world war, hundreds more deaths than were officially recorded in historical archives, a review has found.Labourers on the island of Alderney were “subject to atrocious living and working conditions, which included starvation, long working hours, completing dangerous construction works,

Large-scale nuclear power station planned for Anglesey in Wales

Ministers are discussing who will build the plant, which will join Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C as major future suppliers to the gridMinisters have earmarked north Wales as the site of a large-scale nuclear power plant, which is part of plans to resuscitate Britain’s nuclear power ambitions.Wylfa on Anglesey (Ynys Môn) has been named as the preferred site for the UK’s third major nuclear power plant in a generation, coming after EDF’s Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, whic

Inquiry to begin into DWP’s treatment of ill and disabled people on benefits

Some eligibility decisions have been linked to deaths of vulnerable claimants, and EHRC will examine if ministers acted unlawfullyThe treatment of chronically ill and disabled people by welfare officials, including benefits decisions subsequently linked to the deaths of vulnerable claimants, is to be formally investigated by Britain’s human rights watchdog.The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said it would examine whether ministers at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) h

German author Jenny Erpenbeck wins International Booker Prize for tale of tangled love affair

German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday for "Kairos," the story of a tangled love affair during the final years of East Germany’s existence.The novel beat five other finalists, chosen from 149 submitted novels, for the prize, which recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English and published in the U.K. or Ireland. The 50,000 pounds ($64,000) in prize money is divided between auth

Demand for Taylor Swift’s UK tour could fuel summer ticket fraud bonanza

‘Purchase scams’ often pegged to big events, warns UK Finance’s annual fraud reportThe clamour to secure tickets for Taylor Swift’s sold-out UK shows is expected to fuel a summer fraud bonanza as figures showed a “staggering” £1.2bn was stolen from unwitting consumers in 2023.Swift’s Eras tour, which arrives in the UK in June, and the Olympic Games, are contenders for biggest ticketing scam of the year. The warning, from industry group UK Finance,

Maker of popular weedkiller amplifies fight against cancer-related lawsuits

The maker of the weedkiller plans to amplify its push for legal protection.

Eight Australians taken to Thai hospital after London-Singapore flight hits severe turbulence

One Briton, en route to an Australian holiday, dies after ‘dramatic drop’ onboard Singapore Airlines flight Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastEight Australians are in hospital after a London-to-Singapore flight hit severe turbulence, leading to the death of one British tourist who was travelling to Australia.The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed that eight Australians had

Pentagon: Russia likely launched counter space weapon into low Earth orbit last week

The U.S. has assessed that Russia launched what is likely a counter space weapon last week that's now in the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite, the Pentagon said.

A Canadian serial killer who brought victims to a pig farm is hospitalized after a prison assault

Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, was assaulted in prison and has been hospitalized in life-threatening condition, authorities said Tuesday.A 51-year-old inmate was in custody for the assault Sunday at a prison in Quebec, police spokesman Hugues Beaulieu said.JURY TO DELIBERATE IN CANADIAN PIG FARMER SERIAL KILLINGS CASEThe 74-year-old Pickton was convicted of six counts of

Graceland is not for sale, Elvis Presley's granddaughter Riley Keough says in lawsuit

Elvis Presley’s estate is fighting what it says is a fraudulent scheme to auction off Graceland to the highest bidder

France is trying Syrian ex-officials for the torture and killing of a father and son. Here's why

The Syrian soldiers came first, at night, for the son, Patrick, a 20-year-old psychology student at Damascus University, and said they were taking him away for questioning.They came back the next night for his father, Mazen.Five years later, in 2018, death certificates from Syrian authorities confirmed to the Dabbagh family that the French-Syrian father and son would never come home again.In a landmark trial, a Paris court is seeking this week to determine whether Syrian intelligence officials &

New filings allege additional obstruction effort by Trump in classified docs case

The special counsel appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Trump to obstruct the government's classified documents probe, according to a filing.

Parole delayed for former LA police detective convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986

A chance for parole has been delayed for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986

Thailand welcomes the return of trafficked antiquities from New York's Metropolitan Museum

Thailand's National Museum hosted a welcome-home ceremony Tuesday for two ancient statues that were illegally trafficked from Thailand by a British collector of antiquities and were returned from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.The objects -- a tall bronze figure called the "Standing Shiva" or the "Golden Boy" and a smaller sculpture called "Kneeling Female" -- are thought to be around 1,000 years old.EXPLORING THAILAND'S TAPESTRY OF TRADITION, ADVENTURE, TIMELESS B

Report says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of rural Tibetans

An extensive report by Human Rights Watch says China is accelerating the forced urbanization of Tibetan villagers and herders, adding to state government and independent reports of efforts to assimilate them through control over their language and traditional Buddhist culture.The non-profit organization cited a trove of Chinese internal reports contradicting official pronouncements that all Tibetans who have been forced to move, with their past homes destroyed on departure, did so voluntary.CHIN

The bodies of 4 men and 2 women were found strangled, piled up in Mexican resort of Acapulco

The bodies of four men and two women have been found strangled and dumped in a pile in Mexico's Pacific coast resort of Acapulco

Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to charges in Arizona fake electors case

Former New York mayor one of 12 defendants charged with illegally trying to keep Trump in power after 2020 election defeatRudy Giuliani denied charges of illegally trying to keep Donald Trump in power after his 2020 election defeat as he was arraigned to appear before a court in Arizona along with 10 other defendants on Tuesday.Giuliani’s not guilty plea to nine felony charges came days after he was served an indictment as he left a party to celebrate his 80th birthday last Friday. Continu