Rising ocean temperatures look set to cause lasting damage to coral reef systems, a study suggests. Read more…

Search giant Yahoo is revamping its home page to introduce customisation tools for visitors. Read more…

Aston Barrett, the bassist from Bob Marley's band The Wailers, loses his legal battle for Ј60m in unpaid royalties. Read more…

AP - Presidential adviser Karl Rove blamed the war in Iraq on Monday for dragging down President Bush's job approval ratings in public opinion polls. "People like this president," Rove said. "They're just sour right now on the war." Read more…

AP - President Bush stepped to the right and left at the same time on immigration: courting conservatives with tough talk of sending the National Guard to the border and seeking to reassure moderates that a guest-worker program will be part of the mix. Read more…

AP - Justin Globus is part of a fast-growing group — approaching one in 10 Americans — who have given up traditional telephones and depend only on their cell phones. That trend is making pollsters uneasy. Read more…

AP - President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, arrives at the White House every day wearing a jovial smile that masks his boss' political troubles and his own legal woes. Read more…

AP - President Bush was briefly caught in the floodlights Monday night when NBC News, which was operating the television camera in the Oval Office, gave him the cue to begin his speech too early. Read more…

AP - Pennsylvania voters Tuesday are expected to seal state Treasurer Bob Casey's nomination to run against conservative Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, and they may also show whether they are still mad at lawmakers for giving themselves a big pay raise in the middle of the night. Read more…

AP - Chic Hecht, a Republican known as much for his verbal miscues as his upset victory in a U.S. Senate race over two decades ago, died of cancer Monday in a Las Vegas hospital. He was 77. Read more…

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been out of state all or part of 163 days since his inauguration in November 2003 — nearly one of every five days he's been in office. Read more…

AP - The Supreme Court said Monday it would not block a lesbian from seeking parental rights to a child she helped raise with her longtime partner. Read more…

AP - Taking issue with the International Committee of the Red Cross, the State Department said Friday the United States is not obliged under the Geneva conventions to give the committee access to all prisoners under U.S. jurisdiction. Read more…

Order is restored in 70 Brazilian prisons after sparking violence in Sao Paulo which left inhabitants terrified. Read more…

Canada is reportedly planning to extend its 2,300 troops' mission in Afghanistan for two more years. Read more…

Darfur's smaller rebel groups get a new two week deadline to sign a peace deal with Khartoum. Read more…

The US imposes a ban on arms sales to Venezuela, citing its lack of support for anti-terror efforts. Read more…

The US is to take Libya off a list of terrorism sponsors and restore full diplomatic ties after more than 25 years. Read more…

Nigeria says it is investigating claims that MPs have been offered bribes to let the president seek re-election. Read more…

England are denied by their own poor fielding and brave batting from Sri Lanka as the first Test ends in a draw. Read more…

Ex-Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi is questioned by prosecutors over Serie A match-fixing claims. Read more…

Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali - a fierce critic of radical Islam - is pressed to quit over false asylum claims. Read more…

South Africa's governing party reinstates Jacob Zuma in his duties as deputy leader after his rape trial. Read more…

Former Enron bosses Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling stole from investors both for gain and egotism, their trial hears. Read more…

Weakness in the US dollar overshadows global stock markets as investors sell exporters on earnings fears. Read more…