Climate change to make 1 billion refugees by 2050 Scientists predict that average temperatures will rise by between 1.8 and 3.0 degrees Celsius this century because of greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, causing floods and famines and putting million of lives at risk.
45 killed in Iraq suicide bombing A suicide truck bomber crashed into the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 45 people and wounding more than 100, including a mayor, officials said.
Taliban commander Dadullah killed Mullah Dadullah, a top lieutenant of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, was killed on Saturday in the southern province of Helmand, said Said Ansari, the spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service.
Brown keen to slough off Blairite past Britains Chancellor Gordon Brown, the prime minister-in-waiting, is planning to strip Downing Street of key powers and looking at setting up an inquiry into the mistakes made in the run-up to the Iraq war, the media here reported on Sunday.
Iraqis mourn outside a hospital in the city of Arbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, on Sunday, after a suicide bomber killed atleast 45 people and wounded 115 when he ploughed his explosives-laden SUV into local administrative offices in the nearby northern Iraqi town of Mahmur. Police said the bomber hit a compound housing Mahmur's local administration and the offices of two Kurdish political parties. AFP
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