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 London (AFP) Nov 22, 2009 
Clean-up efforts were underway Sunday in flood-hit towns following the heaviest downpours ever recorded in England, as fears mounted for a woman thought swept into a swollen river in Wales. Some 314 millimetres (more than one foot) of rain fell in 24 hours -- the highest level since records began -- over Cumbria as torrential rains swept across Britain and Ireland. The Environment Agency ... read more 
Mecca, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Nov 21, 2009Swine flu has killed four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj, health authorities said on Saturday only a few days before the massive Muslim gathering reaches its peak. An Indian man, a Moroccan woman and a Sudanese man -- all aged 75 -- died from A(H1N1), as had a 17-year-old girl from Nigeria, Saudi health ministry spokesman Khaled al-Marghlani said. "They all had pre-existing ... more |
Activists slam 'destructive' Indonesia forest conversion plan
Indonesia launches international carbon exchange Australia earmarks $1.2 billion for 'green' aluminium Russians take Epiphany dip in waters hit by oil spill Indonesia's Mount Ibu erupts more than 1,000 times this month Rome shoppers take pot luck in 'blind sale' of unclaimed packages Companies slam delay on deep-sea mining rules Australia declares disaster in areas of storm-hit east Trump inauguration moved indoors due to extreme cold US Fed withdraws from global climate change initiative 
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Halifax, Canada (AFP) Nov 20, 2009US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Friday said Washington aims to boost cooperation with Canada in the Arctic, as Russia and others eye its vast untapped resources. "Canada and the US are both Arctic nations," said Gates. "We share an interest in developing more icebreaking ships for mobility and improving domain awareness to support search-and-rescue in light of increased tourism up ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 20, 2009India, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to give up eating beef to help reduce global warming. "The single most important cause of (carbon) emissions is eating beef," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said during a speech on Thursday, his office told AFP. "My formula is stop eating beef. This ... more  
Gaborone (AFP) Nov 22, 2009Tourists love to watch herds of elephants trekking across Botswana's famed Okavango Delta, but nearby farmers watch in dismay when the animals trample their crops, leaving them little to eat. Now those farmers have a new, safe weapon to keep elephants at bay: chilli peppers. Planted around crops, infused into cloth, even made into chilli-dung bombs -- Botswana's farmers are trying myriad ... more |
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Copenhagen (AFP) Nov 22, 2009Sixty-five world leaders have so far confirmed they will attend the UN Copenhagen climate summit next month, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said Sunday. Leaders from Brazil, Germany, France, Britain and Australia are among those who have "responded positively" to the invite, Rasmussen said during his party's annual conference in the central city of Odense. Other leaders had ... more 
Geneva (AFP) Nov 20, 2009The World Health Organisation said Friday that a mutation had been found in samples of the swine flu virus taken following the first two deaths from the pandemic in Norway. However, it stressed that the mutation did not appear to cause a more contagious or more dangerous form of A(H1N1) influenza and that some similar cases observed elsewhere had been mild. "The Norwegian Institute of ... more  
Ouagadougou (AFP) Nov 20, 2009Efforts to end Guinea's political deadlock following a massacre at a political rally stalled on Friday with the opposition's rejection of an international mediator's proposals. "The fundamental preoccupations of the Guinean people have not been taken into account," said an opposition statement after Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore suggested junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara ... more |
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