A young player from New Orleans, Odell Beckham Jr, stole the show on Sunday night with a three-fingered catch that will intrigue for years to come

The weekend proved it again.

Ireland’s blighted socio-economic landscape is interpreted by four artists in a fascinating new exhibition, says Carl Dixon

A FROG that can perch on the tip of your finger with room to spare has been claimed as the world’s smallest vertebrate species, smaller than a fish that got the title in 2006.

Relatives of the 11 men who died aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are flying over the Gulf of Mexico today, back to the epicentre of the worst offshore oil spill in the nation’s history.

ENGINEERS will start shoving mud and maybe cement into the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico today in what could be one of the final steps to plug it for good, BP said yesterday.

BP engineers today hope to begin a plan to permanently halt oil gushing from a blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

DRAMATIC effects have been seen from a weight loss recipe that combines anti-addiction drugs with dieting and exercise.

BP’s broken well was leaking oil and gas again today for the first time since the company capped it last week.

The BP oil leak could be completely contained as early as Monday if a new, tighter cap can be fitted over the blown-out well, the US government official in charge of the crisis said.

BP’s massive oil spill became the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, based on the highest of the federal government’s estimates, an ominous record that underscores the dire need to halt the gusher.

Oil from the worst spill in US history could soon end up at petrol stations, construction sites and even grocery stores when BP sells the crude taken from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico to raise money for wildlife protection.

The cap on the blown-out BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is capturing half a million gallons a day – anywhere from a third to three quarters of the oil spewing from the bottom of the sea, officials said today.

BP boss Tony Hayward disputed claims today that large undersea plumes had been set adrift by the Gulf oil spill.

BP said it was confident its latest experiment using a mile-long pipe would capture much of the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, even as the company admitted yet another setback in the environmental disaster.

AS Americans anxiously waited for a slick in the Gulf of Mexico to wash up along the coast, globules of oil were already falling to the bottom of the sea, where they threatened virtually every link in the ocean food chain, from plankton to fish on dinner tables everywhere.

As Americans anxiously waited for a slick in the Gulf of Mexico to wash up along the coast, globules of oil were already falling to the bottom of the sea, where they threatened virtually every link in the ocean food chain, from plankton to fish on dinner tables everywhere.

Hundreds of hotel owners, fishermen and restaurateurs feared for their livelihoods today as a giant oil slick from a wrecked rig site oozed towards America’s Gulf Coast.

A COMMON cold virus can help make people obese, research suggests.

MANY people feel Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed New Orleans and wrecked the Gulf Coast a year ago, has exposed a deep divide of race and poverty in the United States.

Two of New Orleans’ most troubled hospitals were evacuated late yesterday after desperate doctors spent days making tough choices about which patients got dwindling supplies of food, water and medicines.

SEWAGE and chemicals are mixed into a potentially toxic bathtub soaking New Orleans, posing the threat of disease for residents forced to wade in Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters.

Atkins Nutritionals today announced that it would take its diet plan directly into America’s schools, after teaming up with education groups.

The US will be seeing in the New Year amid the tightest-yet security, with the nation’s terrorism alert on its second-highest level.

GEORGE Bush, not Tony Blair, is the king of spin and news management, a new study into the effects of propaganda claimed yesterday.

A MAN suspected in the killings of five women was arrested peacefully outside a tyre store, ending a months-long manhunt in a case that terrified women across Louisiana in the United States.

US POLICE and the FBI are scouring the country for a man accused of murdering five women in southern Louisiana after a DNA dragnet linked him to one of the slayings.

A bioweapons expert under scrutiny for the anthrax attacks today denied he was behind the tainted letters and said “the heinous acts of biological terrorism” appalled him.

Scientists say napalm should be used to get rid of Britain's foot-and-mouth-infected carcasses.