AFP - The World Wildlife Fund on Tuesday criticised the European Union's illegal wood imports, singling out Finland as the top offender and calling for EU-wide legislation to tackle the issue.

Reuters - Tropical Storm Dolly intensified over the western Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday as it bore down on southern Texas, but forecasters don't expect it to pack too much of a punch when it comes ashore near the Mexican border as a hurricane on Wednesday.

AFP - One of Italy's leading animal rights groups said Monday it was launching an Internet petition to demand Pope Benedict XVI stop wearing fur during religious ceremonies at the Vatican.

AFP - Forecasters issued a hurricane warning on Tuesday as Tropical Storm Dolly churned over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to grow into a hurricane within 24 hours near the Mexico-Texas border.

AP - Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the craft, Egyptologists announced Saturday.

AP - The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again — online.

AP - A hurricane watch was issued for parts of the Texas and Mexico coasts Monday as Tropical Storm Dolly entered the Gulf of Mexico.

AP - A tropical storm warning remains in effect Monday for Mexico's Yucatan peninsula as Tropical Storm Dolly nears Cancun.