PRIME Minister Gordon Brown sparked uproar in Britain`s House of Commons overnight by claiming to have "saved the world", in a slip of the tongue seized on with glee by the opposition
FAILURE by Europe`s leaders to back a climate action plan at their summit in Brussels tomorrow and Saturday could badly damage negotiations for a global deal, top economist Nicholas Stern said at the UN talks
VETERAN mediator Martti Ahtisaari insisted today that all conflicts could be resolved and urged Barack Obama to strive to bring peace to the Middle East as he received the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize
THOUSANDS of protesters have gathered in the centre of Athens today as a general strike brought Greece to a standstill after a fourth night of street battles sparked by the police killing of a schoolboy
HOTELIERS in Venice, trying to lure tourists to the canal city despite floods caused by the highest sea levels in over two decades, are offering special "High Water" packages complete with free rubber boots
A BALLISTICS report into the shooting of a Greek teenager by a policeman that sparked a tide of street violence concluded that the bullet ricocheted off something before hitting the youth, the policeman`s lawyer said today
Protesters hurled two petrol bombs outside an Athens court as two police officers arrested over the shooting of a teenager, which led to nationwide riots, went before a magistrate for questioning, police said
BRITAIN will start pulling troops from Iraq in March and most will leave by June, reports said yesterday, but the Ministry of Defence (MOD) denied US soldiers would take their place
