AP - Eight new complex, carbon-containing molecules have been found in two interstellar clouds by an international research team using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.

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Reuters - Saudi Arabia and Mexico have pledged to help fill shortages in the U.S. oil supply due to the Alaska pipeline shutdown, the White House said on Tuesday.

AP - Sooty shearwaters may not look like much, but when it comes to travel they put marathoners, cyclists and pretty much everyone else to shame.

AP - After the great 1906 earthquake, searching for reliable power and drinking water, San Francisco looked at the soaring granite of Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley and saw walls for a reservoir.

AFP - Accident-prone BP has come under political attack as the British energy giant scrambled to shut down America's biggest oil field following a leak from an ageing, corroded pipeline.

AP - Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said Tuesday it could take months to resume normal shipments of Alaska oil, but that there are adequate supplies to make up for the loss to West Coast refineries.

AP - The 2006 Atlantic hurricane season should be slightly less active than originally predicted, federal forecasters said Tuesday.

Reuters - The hurricane season will be slightly less intense than first predicted with as many as nine hurricanes expected to form, government forecasters said on Tuesday, but warned the most dangerous part of the season was still to come.

AFP - British energy giant BP scrambled to tackle the crisis over an oil spill at its Alaska operations caused by corrosion, saying it would replace all main pipelines and halt production indefinitely.

AFP - British energy giant BP scrambled to tackle the crisis over an oil spill at its Alaska operations caused by corrosion, saying it would replace all main pipelines and halt production indefinitely.

AFP - State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp. has halted production at India's two largest gas fields after monsoon rains flooded a processing plant in the western state of Gujarat.

AFP - Torrential monsoon rains are feared to have killed another 33 people across Pakistan, including 20 when a bus slid off a flooded mountain road and plunged into a ravine.

Reuters - NASA's next space shuttle crew arrived at Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Monday for a dress rehearsal of the late August launch of a mission to restart construction of the International Space Station.

Reuters - Is it a mysterious ape? Someone's lost pet monkey or the product of overactive imaginations?

AFP - Parts of northern and western Austria were put on flood alert following heavy rain over the weekend but the situation was improving early Tuesday, authorities have said.

AP - A pair of twin giant pandas each gave birth to twin cubs this week, bringing the number of pandas born in captivity this year in China to six, state media reported Tuesday.

AFP - British energy giant BP has scrambled to ease the crisis over an oil spill at its Alaska operations caused by corrosion, saying it would replace all main pipelines and halt production indefinitely.

Reuters - Is it a mysterious ape? Someone's lost pet monkey or the product of overactive imaginations?

AP - Forecasters predicted scattered rain and thunderstorms in pockets from coast to coast on Tuesday.