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Rory McIlroy is ready for a break.

Darren Clarke left the PGA Championship much differently than his last major tournament.

After being assured he could do no additional damage, Rory McIlroy played Friday in the second round of the PGA Championship with a heavily taped right wrist.

Darren Clarke has won his first major title at the British Open. The 42-year-old from Northern Ireland shot an even-par 70 Sunday that gave him a three-stroke victory over Americans Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson

Rory McIlroy said before the British Open began that two level-par rounds of 70 would suit him just fine and while his arithmetic was slightly out the Northern Irishman heads into the weekend at Royal St George's right where he wanted to be.

Once the face of golf in Northern Ireland, Darren Clarke has become the forgotten man.

Here's a great video primer on how auroras form, from Per Byhring and the physics department at the University of Oslo. With wonderful graphics, the nearly five-minute-long video details the origin of the solar storms that trigger the Northern and Southern lights

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Britain occupies the top three spots in the world rankings for the first time in their 25-year history after Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland rose to third following his triumph at the U.S. Open.

Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely discussed in mainstream science: entanglement. Did subatomic particles influence each other from a distance? What were the implications?

Neodenticula seminae, a microscopic strand of photosynthesizing plankton, is common in much of the northern Pacific Ocean. [More]

CBS News RAW: Hundreds of yoga enthusiasts filled the northern half of New York City's Times Square in a massive group yoga class organizers called, 'Mind over Madness'.

Rory McIlroy has returned to Britain, basking in his record-breaking U.S Open triumph and ready for a three-week break before he returns to the course to look for a second straight major victory.

From the lofty heights of his throne atop the world of golf, Rory McIlroy needs look no further than his own Belfast backyard for a salutary reminder of how, if he and those around him aren't careful, it could all go downhill from here.

Rory McIlroy is being hailed in Northern Ireland as the "Celtic Tiger."