Microbes can clean up toxic waste dumps

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Microbes with a taste for toxic waste may hold the solution to cleaning up contaminated industrial sites and poisoned waterways across the globe, saving billions of dollars in cleanup bills, an Australian scientist said. BEIJING (Reuters) -Staff at a zoo in southwest China are in mourning after a sleep-deprived panda dropped her two-day-old baby and crushed it to death, local media reported on Friday. CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida started filling space shuttle Atlantis' fuel tank for a launch attempt on Friday after nearly two weeks of delays due to weather problems and technical glitches, officials said.