A US judge has ruled that negligence by army engineers led to massive flooding in an area of New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.The court upheld complaints by six residents and a business against the US Army Corps of Engineers over its maintenance of a navigational channel.They were awarded damages totalling $720,000 (£431,000), and the ruling could lead to thousands more claims. About 80% of New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina.

A Polish priest has published a sex manual advising couples to have a 'saucy and fantasy packed' love life. Father Ksawery Knotz's book, entitled In Sex as you don't know it: For married couples who love God, has been described as a "Catholic Kama Sutra".The Franciscan friar has raised eyebrows by going into graphic detail about how married couples can spice up their sex lives. "Every act - a type of caress, a sexual position - with the goal of arousal is permitted and pleases God," he writes.