A 53-year-year old visually blind golfer from Mahoning Township, Pa. has become the first totally blind female to record a hole-in-one. Sheila Drummond, who lost her eyesight 26 years ago due to diabetes, achieved the remarkable turning point in her career on Sunday, recording an ace on the 144-yard, par-3 fourth hole at Mahoning Valley Country Club.

Despite 11 deaths and most of the country being submerged, including the capital Manila, under waist-deep floodwaters, Philippine officials were still praying for more rains. Officials say the three-days of continued downfall were not enough to solve the water shortage. An administrator of the Philippine Office of the Civil Defense Glenn Rabonza said that typhoon "Chedeng" (international codename: Pabuk), and an approaching tropical depression "Dodong" (international codename: Wutip), enhanced the monsoon bringing much needed rain.

The Philippine government is asking the Filipino people to pray for typhoon to ease the dry-spell the country is experiencing which is being blamed for power shortage and agricultural difficulties. Typhoon can be a country's worst enemy but in the Philippines, the government is doing their best to experience heavy rains particularly in water sheds. The Arroyo administration has even opted to cloud seeding operations to facilitate rains.

A Filipino fisherman who was lost at sea for 10 days, lived alone in an uninhabited island for three days, lived with inhabitants of another island for a month before being brought to Koror in Palau, was finally repatriated to the Philippines after a two month absence. The Philippine News Agency reported that Jonathan Tawameo, from the southern city of General Santos, went to fish alone on May 17. He left aboard a smaller boat, and when he went back to join a fishing fleet, it had already left.

Estonia has won both gold and silver at the 12th annual world wife-carrying championships in Finland. Participants braved rain, hurdles and exhaustion to stumble along a 250-metre path with women clinging upside-down to their backs. There were 44 couples from 12 countries competing in the annual event in Sonkajarvi, reports Sky News. The idea for the race came from a Finnish legend, Rosvo-Ronkainen, who made people run through a forest carrying heavy sacks on their backs.