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Rickie Fowler celebrated winning The Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass in style Sunday by passionately embracing his bikini model girlfriend, Alexis Randock, in front of the fans and TV cameras. The victory -- in a tournament widely regarded as the unofficial fifth major -- is easily the biggest win of the 26-year-old Fowler's career. And with Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn having announced their split earlier this month, Fowler and Randock are arguably staking out a claim to be golf's new power couple. The steamy clinch certainly made an impression on social media, provoking a stream of Vines and memes. Erin Walker, wife of PGA Tour player, Jimmy Walker, even got in on the act by tweeting that she and her husband needed to work on their own celebrations after Fowler and Randock's display. The elation felt by Fowler was perhaps understandable given he was voted golf's most overrated player alongside England's Ian Poulter in an anonymous poll of fellow professional...

"Nothing less than genocide," is how the Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat described the tragedy, which comes less than a week after another 400 people lost their lives attempting the dangerous sea crossing. But come May, there will be another search-and-rescue ship scouring the waves for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East -- though this is hardly your typical life-saving mission. Meet Chris and Regina Catrambone, a wealthy couple whose 40-meter floating medical center has already rescued more than 3,000 people since launching late last year. Inspired by a sermon from Pope Francis in which he criticized what he called the "global indifference" to the refugee crisis, the couple invested in a 483-ton converted fishing trawler, called "Phoenix." The boat is equipped with two high-tech drones, a medical clinic, 1,000 liters of water, hundreds of life jackets, and food. Manning all of this is a crew of 20, including doctors, para...