AFP - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger warned that losses to the region's citrus fruit industry could reach one billion dollars as crops froze under an arctic cold spell.
AP - Plans to build new crematoriums are running into resistance around the country over a fear some scientists say is overblown: toxic emissions, especially mercury fumes from incinerating dental fillings.
AP - Jordan's ancient city Petra was officially declared a candidate Tuesday in the contest to name the new seven wonders of the world at a ceremony amid its rose-colored stone buildings.
AFP - The European Union agreed to lift a requirement for all imports of US maize gluten and brewers' grain to be certified free of a banned genetically modified strain, the European Commission said.
AFP - British zoological authorities launched a conservation programme aimed at protecting some of the world's most endangered and extraordinary creatures.
AFP - Californian farmers are bracing for devastation to citrus crops worth hundreds of millions of dollars as the state shivers under record low temperatures, officials said.
AP - It isn't often that the northern hairy-nosed wombat, the finger-sized slender loris, and the mountain pygmy possum share the spotlight. But these odd creatures are the focus of a conservation program launched Tuesday to safeguard some of the world's rarest mammals.
AFP - Malaysia faces a huge task to repair the damage from disastrous floods, the prime minister said, as boats and helicopters ferried supplies to nearly 100,000 people displaced by the crisis.
AP - The parents of an embryo rescued from a flooded and sweltering hospital during the tumultuous weeks after Hurricane Katrina welcomed Noah Markham on Tuesday morning.
AFP - A powerful winter storm has killed at least 31 people as it swept east across the central United States, carrying snow, sleet and ice.
