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.

Accepting the challenge of a friend to pot 108 holes in the game of golf, Beatrice High School golf coach Dick Stuart, middle school teacher Ben Essam and golf pro Joel Brueggemann made a record of sorts by playing 110 holes, a bit more than the original goal.

When their friend Jim Edwards said it was impossible to play six rounds of golf in one day, the trio decided to start at 5:45 a.m. and finished two more than six rounds of 18 holes at 9:15 p.m. The first few holes were literally played in the morning fog.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth is to receive a new royal carriage as a gift from an Australian monarchist. Jim Frecklington, who lives in Sydney, has spent years and re-mortgaged his home to build the new State Coach Britannia.

The carriage - which cost an estimated $1.23 million to build with some of the costs being covered by the Australian government - will be flown into Britain and given as a gift to the queen.

A Nepali sports person, whose name was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records, for clocking the fastest run at the highest altitude, only learned about it eight years after setting the record.

A news report published in The Kathmandu Post said the long distance runner, Hari Bahadur Rokaya was stunned when he found his name in the golden jubilee edition of the Guinness Book four months ago.

The owner of a McDonald's franchise in Southlake, Texas, has been sued by two women who claim to have found a dead rat in the salad bowl they purchased. However, the owner denies any charges in the court documents.

According to the Fort-Worth Star Telegraph, the wife of former Cowboys wide receivers coach and passing-game coordinator Todd Haley, Christine, found a stiff dead roof rat after they began eating the salad.