VENICE hoteliers are urging tourists to enjoy the tourist mecca despite chronic flooding, offering free rubber boots for guests to slosh around the Renaissance city
GREECE is braced for further disruption today with a general strike expected to severely disrupt public transport as the country battles major unrest sparked by the police shooting of a teenager
NOBEL laureate Desmond Tutu led a group of singers, writers, actors and campaigners in urging rich nations to lead the way in tackling global warming to protect the world`s poor
PEOPLE affected by worsening storms, heatwaves and floods could soon be able to sue the companies they blame for global warming, a leading climate expert says
INSURERS are prepared to pay a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of gems stolen from a luxury Paris jewellers last week in one of the biggest hold-ups in French criminal history
POLICE and students clashed outside the Greek parliament Tuesday despite an appeal for calm by the president ahead of the funeral for a 15-year-old boy whose killing by police set off nationwide riots
