Numbers of the odd-looking fossa, Madagascar's largest carnivore, may be dwindling fast, according to scientists.

The EU holds a summit on energy innovation as Europe faces a trillion-euro infrastructure bill over the next decade.

Scientists in New Zealand link the modern-day decline of a forest shrub with the local extinction of two pollinating birds over a century ago.

A study by a UK think-tank challenges the view that people would migrate en mass to other nations as a result of climate change.

The husband of the US congresswoman injured in an Arizona gun attack is to lead one of the final space shuttle missions in April, Nasa confirms.

A study of the Martian polar region by an orbiting satellite shows that sand dunes, once thought to be frozen and static, change radically every year.