NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Aug 26, 2007 (AFP) - In a cramped trailer in a suburb of New Orleans, Beryl Kramer, 54, can't stop crying.

'I can't tell you how many times I've wanted to commit suicide,' Kramer sobs, 'but God doesn't want me to.'

Two years after Hurricane Katrina destroyed her home, the Cajun-French woman lives alone with her four cats inside a government-issued mobile home.

About 300 white trailers surround the shell of the main St. Bernard parish government building.

CAMP DAVID, Maryland, July 30, 2007 (AFP) - As first greetings go, it seemed awkward. New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's opening gambit to US President George W. Bush had all the nervousness of a shy night-club approach.

'Do you come here quite a bit?' he asked Bush after arriving by helicopter at the president's rural retreat Sunday evening from a rain-drenched Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.