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  • Rising seas will wipe resorts off tourist map

    Natural wonders: Enjoy your exotic Asian beach or skiing holidays while you can. In the coming decades, warmer weather, rising seas, more intense storms, even changes in ocean currents will literally wipe some idyllic destinations off the tourist map, experts say. p

  • Sailors feared they would be executed

    BRITAIN: Royal navy sailors and marines held captive in Iran for a fortnight yesterday told of the moments they thought they were about to be executed by their captors as the first full account of their ordeal was made public. p

  • Captured Israeli soldier to be freed, says Abbas

    MIDDLE EAST: Hamas and Fatah militants clashed in the Gaza Strip on Friday, wounding two fighters and a young boy, as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas raised hopes of a deal to free an abducted Israeli soldier. p
Global Warming

  • Impact will be worst for world's poorest countries

    Analysis: The UN's dire predictions have been watered down, writes Liam Reid , Environment Correspondent, in Brussels p

  • IPCC: two reports to come

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up in 1988 by the United Nations to guide governments on global warming. It draws on work by about 2,500 specialists from more than 130 nations and last issued reports in 2001. This year it will issue four, the second of which was delivered yesterday. p

  • Roche speaks of 'huge moral imperative'

    Irish reaction: The IPCC report created a "huge moral imperative" on all the developed world to follow the lead of the EU in dealing with climate change, Minister for Environment Dick Roche said yesterday. p

  • Alarm expressed over 'apocalyptic future'

    Activists' reaction: Environmentalists reacted with alarm to the latest IPCC report. p

  • Marine life threatened by increasing acidity in oceans

    Marine world: Rising carbon dioxide emissions are making the world's oceans more acidic, particularly closer to the poles, heralding disaster for marine life, according to the climate change report. p
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  • Hunter hopes to poach enough votes to bag support for agenda

    FRANCE: Lara Marlowe was out and about with some of the less well known presidential candidates p

  • VISIT: Le Pen courts immigrants

    FRANCE: The far-right French presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen visited a multiracial Paris suburb at the centre of a "scum" jibe by conservative presidential frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday, in a direct challenge to his rival. p

  • Serbia hails UN Kosovo visit

    SERBIA: Serbia has hailed a United Nations plan to send a Security Council fact-finding team to Kosovo as a small victory in its fight to stop the region winning independence. p

  • Deadlock at Ukraine talks

    Talks between Ukraine's president and prime minister failed to end the country's political crisis yesterday as thousands of protesters mingled with Easter revellers in the heart of Kiev. p

  • Bloom time lifts gloom from Washington

    America Letter: You know that spring has come to Washington when the cherry blossoms come out near the Jefferson Memorial as congressmen and senators head home for a two-week recess. The city was enjoying its first extended spell of warm sunshine last weekend when more than 3,000 trees came into bloom right on cue for the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, a fortnight of events to celebrate the US capital's very own rite of spring. p

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