AFP - At least 42 people have died and 36 are missing after torrential downpours in southern China triggered heavy floods, and authorities have warned of more rain to come, state media said...

LiveScience.com - Heat waves, floods, avalanches and other deadly natural disasters could become more common in mountainous regions thanks to climate change, a new study suggests, making the famous peaks more dangerous for mountaineers and skiers.

Reuters - Indraprastha Gas Ltd, which supplies gas in New Delhi and surrounding region, said on Wednesday it would raise retail prices of Compressed Natural Gas by 5.6 rupees per kg from Thursday due to an increase in natural gas prices.

AP - BP has started its most ambitious effort to date in its attempt to capture oil flowing from its well a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

LiveScience.com - There's something in the faces of brown-eyed white men that makes them come off as more dominant than their blue-eyed peers, a new study suggests. And it isn't their eye color.

AFP - Rescuers airlifted survivors and searched for missing people in southern France Wednesday after heavy rainstorms triggered flash floods that left at least 15 people dead, officials...

SPACE.com - A close-up view of swirling clouds of gas and dust around young stars has given astronomers a new glimpse into how baby solar systems and their planets are formed.

Reuters - Floods caused by heavy rain killed nine people and left 12 missing near France's Mediterranean coast, local officials said on Wednesday.

Reuters - A construction worker was killed at BP's Rotterdam refinery after a wall collapsed on him, a spokesman for the oil major said on Wednesday.

AP - Fresh from admonishing BP before the world, President Barack Obama now gets his moment with the oil company's leaders. It will be on his turf and, he vowed to an angry nation, on his...

AFP - Southern Ocean sperm whales are an unexpected ally in the fight against global warming, removing the equivalent carbon emissions from 40,000 cars each year thanks to their faeces, a study found on...

AFP - A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake killed at least two people and damaged scores of homes in eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami warning and widespread...

AP - President Barack Obama is following his prime-time speech on the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill with a sit-down meeting Wednesday morning with executives from the BP oil company.

AP - Advocates for the petroleum industry in Alaska told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the agency's polar bear critical habitat plan is seriously flawed.

Time.com - The BP oil spill confounds many of Obama's strengths, which was reflected in the President's uninspiring Oval Office speech

Time.com - Calls for a military solution to the Gulf oil spill tend to overlook the services' own questionable records of working in the deep and of plugging...

AFP - President Barack Obama has vowed the Gulf of Mexico spill would speed the end of US dependence on fossil fuels, but experts doubt reality can match his...

Reuters - President Barack Obama, seeking to counter an image of detached leadership of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will demand on Wednesday that BP Plc set aside billions of dollars to pay damages from the...

AP - Several powerful earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, triggering a brief tsunami warning and sending panicked residents fleeing from buildings to high ground. There were power blackouts in some areas, but no initial reports of serious damage or casualties.

Reuters - President Barack Obama, seeking to counter an image of detached leadership of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, will demand on Wednesday that BP Plc set aside billions of dollars to pay damages from the...

AFP - A Russian cosmonaut and two American astronauts blasted off Wednesday for a restaffing mission to the International Space Station, Russian television showed in a live...

LiveScience.com - The world's oldest known example of a fig wasp has been identified from the Isle of Wight. Dating back 34 million years, the fossil wasp looks almost identical to the modern species, suggesting the specialized insect has remained virtually unchanged for at least that long.

Reuters - President Barack Obama on Tuesday laid out a plan to "battle" BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as he sought to assure American he is in command of the crisis.

AP - A New Mexico-based uranium producer plans to move forward with a mining operation in the western part of the state after that a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that its land is not part of Indian Country.