Rory McIlory (right) goes into the final round of the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai with a one-point lead after a third successive five-under round of 67 to overtake Matthew Fitzpatrick (left).

McIlroy could hardly ask for a more alluring target in his first tournament for seven weeks. A win at the Farmers Insurance Open will take him back to world No 1 for the first time in more than four years.

EXC INTERVIEW BY DEREK LAWRENSON: If you had to rank Sir Nick Faldo's six major championship wins, his successful defence of his Masters title 30 years ago might well finish bottom.

Patrick Byrne, who stepped down last week from the company he founded, made the claim in a lengthy blog post on Tuesday detailing his relationship with Butina.

O'Donnell claimed on the air that a source had told him 'the co-signers of Donald Trump's Deutsche Bank loans are Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.' Trump's lawyers threatened to sue.

Russian media has reported that the mole extracted in 2017 may be Oleg Smolenkov, an aide of senior diplomat and former ambassador to the U.S. Yury Ushakov (pictured).

Oleg Smolenkov, the Kremlin aide named in Russia as the CIA's asset at the heart of Putin's regime tracks closely to a source described in the Steele dossier, claims Ilya Shumanov.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Turkey and its rebel allies had launched a large ground offensive against three villages today and forces thousands of civilians to flee.

Maxine Waters, a vocal Donald Trump critic, said POTUS would invite Vladimir Putin to the White House if he is not removed from office by the Senate and called him 'Putin's puppet.'

The club promoter, 20, appeared to make a thinly-veiled jibe at her former love interest Luke and new partner Demi as she was booted from the villa with Jamie Clayton on Tuesday's Love Island.

The actress, 47 - who is married to Will Smith, 50, also admitted her surprise that female sexuality still remains to be a somewhat-taboo subject

Scientists have claimed pathologist Bennett Omalu exaggerated the link between CTE and contact sports in a 2005 study showing NFL legend Mike Webster only had a small amount of tangled tau.

The former TOWIE star, 29, is clearly head over heels for her beau as she professed her love for him in a sweet snap of the pair in a car.

Coronation Street legend Ken Morely, 77, claimed that he narrowly escaped death after contracting coronavirus a year ago.

The Hollyoaks star, 36, claims ex-husband Alan Halsall 'must have regretted' his hastily-deleted Instagram rant at her boyfriend Lewis Devine.

Coronation Street star Bill Roache claims that Coronation Street will NEVER go off air amid fears the show will run out of new episodes amid the coronavirus pandemic.

William Gething-Lewis of Pembrokeshire, was due to appear in court accused of fiddling £54,000 benefits by hiding a fortune in shares. He failed to attend and sent an email from Greece.

8 fresh coronavirus cases were reported in the last 24 hours, the number of people infectedcin the Indore district has increased to 1,513.The COVID-19 death toll in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh rose to 72 with four more patientsThe COVID-19 death toll in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh rose to 72 with four more patients succumbing to the infection, a health official said on Friday. Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Praveen Jadiasaid that four patients died in the hospitals in Indore cityover the last two days.One of the deceased is a 95-year-old woman, while three others are men aged 75, 55 and 42, he said."These patients were already battling with high bloodpressure, TB, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) andother illnesses," Jadia said.According to him, as 28 fresh

Aarogya Setu has claimed that the Coronavirus tracking app is secure, and no privacy breaches have been found.Elliot Alderson, an ethical hacker had claimed that he had found a security issue in the app.French ethical hacker who goes by the fictitious name Elliot Alderson claimed that there was a security issue in Aarogya Setu, the coronavirus tracking app launched by the Indian government. In his tweet, Elliot Alderson had claimed that a security issue has been found in the Aarogya Setu app and that the privacy of over 90 million Indians was at risk. Soon after this, Alderson was contacted by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) and the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). After disclosing the issue to them, Alderson said that he would wait for the issue to be fixed before

Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for then-Sen. Joe Biden who recently accused him of sexual assault, told Megyn Kelly in an exclusive interview that Biden said, "I want to f--- you," during the alleged assault in 1993."He said it low, and I was pushing away, and I remember my knee hurting because our knees — he had opened my legs with his knee — and our kneecaps clashed, so I felt that sharp pain," Reade said, while recounting how Biden allegedly pushed her against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers.Reade has detailed her experience in multiple interviews with Business Insider, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the podcaster Katie Halper — who first reported the allegations.Her allegations have also been corroborated by a former neighbor, who told Business Insider that

Channel Ten has denied Richard Dreyfuss' claims that he was tricked by The Project's Lisa Wilkinson during his appearance on Sunday's show.

The rapper sat down with Rap Radar at his home in Toronto where he took a moment to discuss the tension surrounding his recent musical collab with Chris Brown - and how this has affected Rihanna.

Ball and her husband Steve were eliminated on Sunday's episode, leaving five couples, including Schulz and her partner Leighton Brow, to battle out the inaugural Nine Network series.

'The #MeToo movement is tremendous and is awesome and needs to continue forever,'McHale, 46, who is in Park City, Utah, told TMZ. 'But if someone had a bad date, it's a bad date.'

'She was not going to be in attendance at the Grammys because she was spending time with her family and her mother whose cancer has returned,' said the source.

Kardashian, in a series of messages on Instagram Stories, also slammed Swift for her timing in rehashing the feud as the country remains locked down amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Delta Goodrem's struggling love life is about to receive a Royal intervention courtesy of the Duchess of Sussex, it has been reported.

Grant Denyer has sensationally claimed that audience members at a recent taping of The Voice Australia were held inside the studio 'against their will'. 

The Voice Australia hopeful Dakota Striplin has made the extraordinary claim that he may be the long-lost grandson of music icon Elvis Presley. 

EXCLUSIVE BY NIK SIMON: The World Rugby elections were rocked last week by allegations of homophobia and discrimination against Fiji Rugby Union chairman Francis Kean.

Tunisia has denied becoming the first Arab government to honour same-sex marriage after the civil union of two gay men in the country was celebrated by an LGBTQ organisation.

The club currently occupy bottom place in the second tier and have met the effective confirmation of their demotion with fury.

Actress Gabrielle Union, 47, who was axed last month, is threatening legal action against British entertainment mogul Cowell's company Syco, which co-produces the show.

MARTHA KELNER: When Adam Gemili opens his laptop to watch a film after training he sees the iconic Rio de Janeiro skyline, which has replaced Beijing's Bird's Nest as his screensaver.

Donald Trump said he has no idea what kind of 'insurance' Rudy Giuliani has but defended his personal attorney after the former mayor warned the president not to throw him under the bus. 

Justice Department lawyers asked a judge to put on hold a ruling requiring Don McGahn to testify as part of the Democrats' impeachment probe against Donald Trump.

The Trump Administration says a key claim in Schiff's impeachment report is inaccurate, insisting Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani did not have a 13-minute phone call with a top White House budget official.

After a mostly quiet New Year's Day, President Trump started out the second day of 2020 on a Twitter tear.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the new information should be evaluated, three days after messages revealed Trump allies talking about the physical location of a U.S. ambassador.

President Donald Trump tweeted Monday that Democrats 'didn't want' advisor John Bolton to testify, as he complained he got 'ZERO' fairness in a House impeachment inquiry.

Rudy Giuliani threatened on Thursday to go public with evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden made 'millions' in the Ukraine by 'selling public office.'  He offered no timeline nor proof of his charge.

Rudy Giuliani promised in a rambling Fox News interview to release shocking 'evidence' regarding Ukraine corruption that he claims will prompt a probe into both Bidens.

Former US VP Joe Biden, his son Hunter and their work in the Ukraine is 'relevant evidence' in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, one of the president's defense lawyers claim. 

Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tore into former security advisor John Bolton as a 'swamp creature' and a 'back stabber' as senators weigh calling Bolton as a witness.

Emiliano Sala was killed in a plane crash as he returned to Wales from France just two days after his transfer from Nantes to Cardiff was announced on January 19 last year.

The former Atomic Kitten singer, 39, used her magazine column to explain her previous remarks insisting her comments were supposed to be 'tounge-in-cheek'.

Perez Hilton has rubbished claims that Charlotte Crosby is being paid $1million to appear on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! Australia.

The former lovebirds took their disagreement to Instagram on Saturday, after Charlotte, 29, shared a cryptic post, accusing her ex of 'taking money' from her.

DEREK LAWRENSON AT WENTWORTH: Forget the vasectomy that made walking painful the last time Danny Willett played in the BMW PGA Championship. His pride was hurting far more.

The PGA Tour say they are still weighing up their options after it was claimed they had ordered a million coronavirus test kits to get to distribute among players and staff on tour.