Rudd prods US to sign Kyoto Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today asked India and China to be "prepared to make commitments" in the fight against climate change and pressed the US to follow Canberras lead and sign the Kyoto protocol.
Fraudsters in love on cheating spree They were young, rich and in love. But the jet-setters financed all their fun on the credit cards of unsuspecting neighbours at their high-end apartment building and other identity-fraud victims, police said on Monday.
Iran victorious after US intelligence report Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared victory on Wednesday, after a US intelligence report contradicted the Bush administration's charge that Iran was actively seeking nuclear weapons.
German jailed for attacking Indians A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to eight months in jail for leading a racist mob that beat up and chased eight Indian men in the eastern German town of Muegeln last summer.
Boys push a vehicle and a motorcycle as it passes through a flooded street in Jakarta. Climate experts say that as global warming heats the Earth up, glaciers and polar ice caps will melt and sea waters will expand, sending oceans rising by at least 18 cm by 2100. AFP
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