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UN talks take up ‘deep cuts’ on climate

Nations set up global climate fund

Global talks on climate change on Saturday set up a new fund to manage billions of dollars in aid to poor nations.

UN talks take up ‘deep cuts’ on climate

UN talks take up ‘deep cuts’ on climate

More than 190 nations on Friday considered "deep cuts" in emissions to hold back climate change.

Guarded optimism as at climate talks

The world’s climate negotiators worked into early Friday morning amid guarded hopes of making progress.

UN chief warns world failing on climate

UN chief warns world failing on climate

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that the world was missing its last chance to control climate change.

China buoys climate talks with ‘binding’ target

China buoys climate talks with ‘binding’ target

China on Monday offered for the first time to submit its voluntary carbon emissions target to a binding United Nations resolution.

Guarded hope at UN climate talks

Exorcising the ghosts of Copenhagen

As ministers began flying in to climate talks in Cancún, the UN on Sunday moved to exorcise the "ghosts of Copenhagen".

China says some at climate talks want to kill Kyoto

China says some at climate talks want to kill Kyoto

China accused some developed nations on Friday at the UN climate talks of seeking to kill the Kyoto Protocol pact to curb global warming.

UN climate talks seek to define rich

UN climate talks seek to define rich, poor duties

Negotiators at UN talks in Mexico on Tuesday struggled over proposals that would abolish a two-decade divide between rich and poor on scrutiny of gree

Pollution slowly killing world’s coral reefs

Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing.

Laila Ali: ‘I’m crazy, but I hope my kids are sane’

She may be a second-generation boxer, but if Laila Ali eventually has children, the world’s most famous woman fighter will discourage them from taking up the sport. ”I’m not…

Wilma heads for Cuba, Florida

Six people were listed as killed and two as missing early on Sunday after Hurricane Wilma erased beaches and flooded luxury hotels up to the third floor in Mexico’s famous…

Hurricane Wilma hits Mexico

Sea water rushed into the Mexican resort city of Cancun early on Saturday as Hurricane Wilma whipped up a massive storm surge and unleashed heavy rain and driving winds over a…

Hurricane Wilma blows into Mexico

Hurricane Wilma battered deserted resorts along Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula with howling winds and torrential rain on Friday, toppling trees and power lines. The heart of the…

Mexico, US brace for lashing from Hurricane Wilma

Mexico braced on Thursday for a major hit from a monstrous Hurricane Wilma as the powerful storm threatened to grow even stronger before making landfall in this touristic…

Hurricane Wilma roars toward Mexico and US

A monstrous Hurricane Wilma barrelled toward Mexico and the storm-weary United States coast on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands to flee coastlines after it mushroomed into the…

Hurricane Wilma takes aim at Cancun, Florida

Hurricane Wilma weakened slightly as it roared toward Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula and southern Florida on Wednesday, leaving 13 people dead in its wake and forcing the evacuation…

Hurricane Emily blasts Mexican beach resorts

Hurricane Emily blasted the world-famous beach resorts on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula on Monday, where thousands of tourists were evacuated or took refuge in shelters while the…

SA police chief chosen as Interpol president

South African National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi was elected on Friday as the new president of Interpol during the final of the 73rd Interpol General Assembly in Cancun,…

More work ahead, says trade minister

Minister Trade and Industry Alec Erwin has said South Africa is concerned and disappointed that trade ministers from across the world were unable to reach a "definite and…

Developing countries flex muscles at WTO flop

A new and expanding alliance of developing countries on Sunday left a doomed World Trade Organisation conference empty-handed but far from despondent, having flexed its new-found…