I didn't know if there was a forum for news at SR, but I wanted to share this story from BBC. Anthropology has always been one of my hobbies, so you can imagine the amazement I felt when reading this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3948165.stm "Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world."