AP - The tropics seem to be going crazy what with the remnants of Gustav, the new threat from Hanna, a strengthening Ike and newcomer Josephine. Get used to it.

Reuters - The same gene that affects a rodent's ability to mate for life may affect human marriages, Swedish and U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

Reuters - Oil prices dropped more than $6.50 per barrel on Tuesday, the biggest drop in dollar terms since 1991, as dealers bet the U.S. oil industry would recovery quickly from Hurricane Gustav.

AFP - A robot freighter that docked with the International Space Station (ISS) in April will detach this week prior to be being destroyed in a controlled operation over the Pacific, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Tuesday.

AFP - Largely spared by Hurricane Gustav, oil companies on Tuesday tallied the damage to their Gulf of Mexico installations, from offshore rigs and drilling to coastal refineries.

AFP - New French energy giant GDF Suez was to announce Tuesday the acquisition of US electricity producer First Light, the daily Le Figaro reported, publishing an interview with GDF Suez CEO Gerard Mestrallet.

AFP - A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.

AFP - In the Lofoten Islands, the main base for Norway's whaling industry, hunters insist that their tradition has a future despite decades of criticism -- and reject claims that consumers aren't buying whale meat.

Reuters - A still-largely deserted New Orleans on Tuesday prepared to take stock of damage from Hurricane Gustav after rebuilt levees appeared to hold off a repeat of the flooding caused by Katrina three years earlier.