A two-month-old tiger cub is found sedated and hidden among stuffed toys in a woman's luggage at Bangkok's international airport.

The $1.5bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer arrives in Florida to make it ready for launch to the space station.

Brazil's government approves the controversial construction on a tributary of the Amazon of the world's third biggest hydroelectric dam.

Nasa's Kepler space telescope detects two large planets orbiting a star some 2,000 light-years from Earth.

Frog skin may be an important source of new antibiotics to treat superbugs say researchers.

Can the recovery of the Galician coast provide inspiration for the fishing and tourism industries in the Gulf of Mexico?

The challenge ahead to reach trapped Chile miners

Scientists discover one of the world's tiniest frogs when it crawls out of a pitcher plant in a Borneo national park.

Researchers in South Africa have revealed the earliest direct evidence of human-made arrows.

Two-thirds of the British public are unable to name a famous female scientist, according to a poll organised by the Royal Society.

Oetzi, the 5,000 year old "Iceman", may have ceremonially buried in the Italian Alps, archaeologists say.

Halting flow of illegal eggs and birds into the Gulf states

Russia's economic growth hit by extreme temperatures

A new technique to harmlessly extract DNA from dolphin "breath" could assist conservation efforts aimed at marine mammals.

A council in South Wales has spent almost £200,000 so that dormice can cross a road safely.

The colossal black holes that reside in galaxies were probably formed shortly after the Big Bang, new research suggests.

Living cell parts have been used to create electricity from chemicals in devices that could one day be fuelled by energy drinks.

French engineers begin an operation to drain a lake that has formed under a glacier on Mont Blanc, and which threatens to flood a valley below.

A 2008 cyber attack launched from an infected flash drive in the Middle East penetrated secret US military computers, a top Pentagon official says.

'The day I ate as many food additives as possible'