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Johannesburg, Sep 23 - American golfer Rickie Fowler has had a new haircut with his team's initials U.S.A. shaved into the side of his head and his captain Tom Watson has reportedly selected a motivational chant for a Ryder Cup that does not even start until Friday.

The passion in the players participating in golf's biennial showdown between Europe and the United States (US) is amazing and the 40 th edition of this event launched on Monday with the players of the two teams arriving in Scotland and assembling at Gleneagles.

Washington: Pacific corals and fish can both smell a bad neighbourhood, and use that ability to avoid settling in damaged reefs, scientists say.

Damaged coral reefs emit chemical cues that repulse young coral and fish, discouraging them from settling in the degraded habitat, researchers found.

The study showed for the first time that coral larvae can smell the difference between healthy and damaged reefs when they decide where to settle.

Kolkata : Two-way trade between India and the US is poised for "exciting times" at this juncture and has scope of increase in bilateral trading volumes, a US official said Monday.

"This is an exciting time of trade between India and the US... There is a huge possibility of increasing bi-lateral trade between the two countries. Economies are huge and so the opportunities of cooperation are endless," US Foreign Commercial Service's newly-appointed Principal Commercial Officer (PCO) Matthew Hilgendorf said here.

Bangalore : His team might have registered a crushing 54-run win over Dolphins here but Chennai Super Kings skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday indicated that it would need to improve its bowling to win the Oppo Champions League Twenty20.

"If you want to win tournaments you have to come up with better performances, our batsmen won't score 240 every time," Dhoni said in the presentation ceremony at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Washington, Sep 22 : People who failed to pre-order the iPhone 6 Plus will now have to wait for several weeks to two months to get their hands on the Apple's big screen smartphone.

Several wireless carriers and Apple's online store are reporting delays of several weeks to two months for the larger of the two new iPhones.

T-Mobile revealed that it wouldn't have any supplies of the iPhone 6 Plus in store, but would be able to honor all preorders. As a perk, the company will throw in free shipping to anyone who comes in to a T-Mobile store to order one from from today through the weekend, according to a company representative, PC World reported.

London, September 22 : Cheryl Cole has dec