Nick Kyrgios huffed and puffed his way past Radu Albot into the second round

US Open: Danish second seed holds off Sam Stosur’s attack on scorching hot day two

Both male and female players will get extra 10-minute break amid 32C heat

The Scot went through four sets with Hames Duckworth after missing four grand slams

Bringing a teenage son on a cruise mightn't sound like a good idea, but for Michelle Jackson and her son it was a brilliant holiday together

A new generation of American songwriters answer the call for musical dissidence

A new book by Polly Devlin looks inside the city’s most curious and luxurious apartments

How Music Works: It took Ray Blackwell time to understand the importance of his family’s venue

Russian grinds out three set win over Timea Babos to extend Flushing Meadows return

It’s been 40 years since Elvis Presley's death, but his former home, Graceland, is still a popular stop on a road trip through the music cities of Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans

This year marks the centenary of the first ever jazz record by five white musicians from New Orleans called The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Kim Jee-woon lays on the thrills from the start in this old-fashioned spy drama

From jazz to electric blues to house and indy rock, Windy City is a real capital of sounds

Journalist covered Birmingham Six, Guildford Four, Maguire Seven and IRA bombings

Grand Slam victory 307 is the most by a woman in the Open era

World number 84 sees off American in four sets to set up tie with world number one

Argentinian returned to action at Wimbledon after two years out with injury

On the hottest day of the summer, here’s a hot countdown of 10 sultry classics

Teachers say both the higher- and ordinary-level papers were ‘very fair’

Tampon speaker means babies ‘learn from the womb’, say Babypod

Amelie Dion and David Foley’s first choice was to get married in Ireland

US Open winner announces her retirement after beating fellow Italian Roberta Vinci

Big serving South African blows away Scot in four hours and 18 minutes in fourth round

Scot will face Kevin Anderson following a late night straight sets win at Flushing Meadows

It’s been a busy summer for Fionn Davenport, as he criss-crossed the United States. Here are three of his favourite cities to visit

2014 runner-up beaten in final set tie-break by Petra Cetkovska at Flushing Meadows

American is still on course for season grand slam but struggled early on in second round

A series in which people help to pen their own obituaries: ‘O’Nuallain was a trained chef who got out of the kitchen, and a dyslexic geography teacher who discovered the world’

Jazz has become a ‘super-broad church’ and is no longer the preserve of middle-aged men, says Kenneth Killeen, the director of the four-day Dublin festival

Review: What’s not to like about Richard Curtis's adaptation of the Roald Dahl story, starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench?

"A couple of weeks ago I took my first ever London bus journey. Ok, not quite on a par with scaling Kilimanjaro but riding the top deck of the 189 from Cricklewood to Oxford Circus was memorable, if only in a way that was obvious to me alone."

Capital described as a ‘newly energised city’ with a ‘literary spirit’ where Bono busks

I discovered many of Weill’s works by following the trail of his tremulous-toned wife

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is a kaleidoscope of colour, exuberance and great noise, when the Big Easy lets the good times roll

The clinic was set up in a flat in Dublin to provide aftercare to polio patients

The Sunday show, a mixture of jazz and giving out, is becoming cult listening, mainly for the darkness of Byrne’s presentation. His subject matter takes in everything from the pope’s fitness and spitting to Pat Kenny’s move

Michael Longley recalls the legendary Belfast figure who died earlier this year