Leaders arriving to sign a Copenhagen climate agreement and finding that they now need to salvage it need to take a global rather than national approach to the numerous outstanding issues, WWF said today.

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As the world's diplomats duel over her destiny, Aminatou Haidar, on the 29th day of her hunger strike, could be hours from death she has been on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport since being deported there from her home in Western Sahara on 15 Nov

Lebanon's new government yesterday endorsed Hezbollah's right to keep its weapons, the latest sign that the group has no intention of meeting a UN resolution calling for it to disarm.

Sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m (4ft 6in) globally by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a major review of climate change in Antarctica.

A Japanese town at the centre of a controversial dolphin slaughtering documentary could sue the filmmakers, local fisheries officials say.The filmmakers have been accused of covertly shooting footage using divers and hidden cameras.

Last week, many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were innoculated with the tamiflu vaccine. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- American commandos killed one of the most wanted Islamic militants in Africa in a daylight raid in southern Somalia on Monday, according to American and Somali officials, an indication of the Obama administration's willingness to use

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City police and the FBI raided homes in the borough of Queens early on Monday as part of an investigation that has tracked a man suspected of sympathizing with al Qaeda, officials said.

"Do you know that terrible feeling you get when someone you care about is viciously attacked for something they haven't done? I got that feeling when I heard the outrageous charges against amazing and courageous people like Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky..."