A live camera overlooking an osprey nest on Hog Island, Maine in the US captured an utterly astounding moment on Monday.

Hurricane Ike roared on to Cuba today after destroying houses and crops on low-lying islands and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, once prized for its plumage and sought by American Indians as magical, was thought to be extinct for years. Now it’s been sighted again, and conservationists are exulting.