The Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans was hit particularly hard during Hurricane Katrina. The BBC's Andy Gallacher met with some of those still struggling to recover their community.

Galicians demand answers over Spain's 2002 Prestige oil spill

The draft sequences of the wheat genome released by UK scientists may prove to be a vital contribution to the efforts of securing global food supply.

Researchers hope to help protect one of the UK's rarest birds

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A two-month-old tiger cub is found sedated and hidden among stuffed toys in a woman's luggage at Bangkok's international airport.

The $1.5bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer arrives in Florida to make it ready for launch to the space station.

Brazil's government approves the controversial construction on a tributary of the Amazon of the world's third biggest hydroelectric dam.

Nasa's Kepler space telescope detects two large planets orbiting a star some 2,000 light-years from Earth.

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Frog skin may be an important source of new antibiotics to treat superbugs say researchers.

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Did our ancient ancestors build to please the ears as well as the eyes? bTrevor Cox/b pitches into the controversial claims of acoustic archaeologistsimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d246fe0/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Echoes+of+the+past%3A+The+sites+and+sounds+of+prehistorylink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727741.600-echoes-of-the-past-the-sites-and-sounds-of-prehistory.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Echoes+of+the+past%3A+The+sites+and+sounds+of+prehistorylink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fmg20727741.600-echoes-of-the-past-the-sites-and-sounds-of-prehistory.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868758964/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/220491744/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868758964/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/220491744/a2.img" border="0"//a

Can the recovery of the Galician coast provide inspiration for the fishing and tourism industries in the Gulf of Mexico?

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It sounds dangerous, even mad, but bPeter Madsen/b is planning to achieve cosmic immersion by riding the smallest crewed rocket ever to reach spaceimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d23ed24/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Human+cannonball+astronaut%3A+My+rocket+is+my+clotheslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19370-human-cannonball-astronaut-my-rocket-is-my-clothes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Human+cannonball+astronaut%3A+My+rocket+is+my+clotheslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Farticle%2Fdn19370-human-cannonball-astronaut-my-rocket-is-my-clothes.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868751391/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/220458276/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868751391/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/220458276/kg/63/a2.img" border="0"//a

A tiny frog has been discovered in Borneo #8211; and it revealed itself to researchers through its dusk-time singingimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/d23cdb4/mf.gif' border='0'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Pea-sized+amphibian+is+top+of+the+frogslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F08%2Fpea-sized-amphibian-is-top-of.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" //a/tdtd valign='middle'a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Pea-sized+amphibian+is+top+of+the+frogslink=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Fblogs%2Fshortsharpscience%2F2010%2F08%2Fpea-sized-amphibian-is-top-of.html%3FDCMP%3DOTC-rss%26nsref%3Donline-news" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868749965/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/220450228/kg/63/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/78868749965/u/60/f/10897/c/749/s/220450228/kg/63/a2.img" border="0"//a

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