The International Cricket Council (ICC) is under fire amid allegations Pakistan players were involved in "spot-fixing" in a Test against England.
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/ 30 September 2009
Poor nations have made serious proposals to combat global warming at talks in Bangkok and it is time for wealthier countries to step forward.
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/ 8 December 2007
Developing countries led by China squabbled with the West over mandatory emission cuts at the Bali climate-change conference, as activists accused Canada on Saturday of undermining the negotiations by insisting on targets for poor nations. Delegates from nearly 190 nations are attending the December 3 to 14 meeting.
A major climate meeting opened on Monday in the Thai capital, Bangkok, with delegates debating how to rein in rising greenhouse-gas emissions that could threaten hundreds of millions with hunger and disease in the coming decades. ”The time to act is now,” said Chartree Chueyprasit, a deputy secretary in Thailand’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
United Nations-sponsored scientists who warned of the dangers of a warming Earth will issue a new study next month describing how to avert the worst: everyone must embrace technologies ranging from nuclear power to manure control.
The filming of Aftermath — a two-part miniseries produced by the BBC and United States cable channel HBO, shot along Thailand’s tsunami-battered coast — has set off a debate over the merits of bringing the tragedy to the screen so soon after the disaster.
Within earshot of a truckload of South Korean troops, a family of wild boars approaches a military base looking for an afternoon snack. Just down the road, water deer dash into a forest dotted with mines. Off-limits to most humans for more than 50 years and home to about two million soldiers, the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas is the world’s most heavily fortified border.
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/ 26 January 2006
Scientists say they have discovered the world’s smallest known fish in threatened swampland in Indonesia. A member of the carp family, the fish has a translucent body and a head unprotected by a skeleton. ”This is one of the strangest fish that I’ve seen in my whole career,” said Ralf Britz, a zoologist at London’s Natural History Museum.
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/ 23 December 2005
A Christmas Island frigate bird named Lydia recently completed a 26-day journey over 4 000km in search of food for her baby chick. The trip, tracked with a global positioning device by officials at Christmas Island National Park, is by far the longest known non-stop journey by this critically endangered sea bird.