Two hundred Mexican Navy marines stormed an upscale apartment complex and killed a reputed drug cartel chief, Arturo Beltran Leyva, in a two-hour gunbattle, one of the biggest victories yet in President Felipe Calderon's drug war.

Small island nations worried about rising seas are calling on the world to limit the use of powerful greenhouse gases called HFCs. But the U.S. and other nations are eyeing economic opportunity and future negotiating room in the gases instead.

Leaders of the so-called 'First World' and 'Third World' are confronting the reality that we live on one world; that the atmosphere has no borders. Clearly, the climate impasse will not be resolved using the paradigm of 'developed' and 'developing.'