The US space shuttle fleet can continue flying beyond NASA's September 30 deadline if the money is made available to keep it going, according to Space Shuttle Program Manager John Shannon (pictured in 2006).(AFP/Getty Images/File/Dave Einsel)... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 8:56 pm

If you thought the mating business was already a jungle, where the pitfalls are looks, social rank, purchasing power, verbal skills and even subconscious smells, get ready to be dismayed for it is even more complex than thought.(AFP/File/Filippo Mont…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 6:18 pm

A man holds an egg from an extinct elephant bird. In a world first, scientists in Australia announced on Wednesday they had extracted DNA from the fossilised eggshells of extinct birds, including iconic giants such as the moa and elephant bird.(AFP/F…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 6:10 pm

Members of the Greens/European Free Alliance group of the European Parliament hold banners reading, "For a GMO-Free Europe" during a debate with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eas…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 1:56 pm

A cople parody a union between German chemical giant BASF (L) and the European Food Safety Authority - during the International Agricultural Fair on March 6 in Paris. Green members of the European parliament stood en masse and held up placards Tuesda…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 1:56 pm

A general view of a frozen lake surrounded by blocks of flats as smoke rises from an thermo-electrical plant in Bucharest in January 2010. Three Romanian environmental organisations filed complaints to the European Commission targetting several "…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 1:52 pm

Smoke billows out of the chimneys of the Kolaghat Thermal Power Station in Kolaghat in 2007. China and India announced on Tuesday they would back the 11th-hour climate accord hammered out in Copenhagen in December, removing doubts that the world'…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 1:28 pm

A Chilean flag flutters next to a destroyed house in Constitucion, some 300 kms south of Santiago, on March 4. About a third of the buildings in Constitucion, population 50,000, were seriously damaged by the powerful 8.8 magnitude quake that struck s…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 1:24 pm

A man looks at a collapsed house in Constitucion, some 300 kms south of Santiago, on March 4. Two waste experts had an epiphany after touring quake-hit Constitucion: clean up the city with volunteers, and pay for it by selling recyclables pulled from…... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 1:24 pm

Volunteers of the organization "A roof for Chile" build a basic house at El Centinela hill, an area affected by the quake and tsunami in Constitucion, Chile, on March 8.(AFP/File/Claudio Santana)... [more »]

Date: 9 March 2010, 1:24 pm

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