A new emissions tracker,launched by ex-US vice president Al Gore,brings bad news.
Demands for rich nations to pay the developing world compensation for climate loss and damage are snowballing,and now the fossil fuel industry is being targeted too.
Observers see the prime minister’s absence to the talks as a snub from a government that has been determined to improve the nation’s climate reputation.
Cairo,the chaotic but captivating Egyptian capital,is preparing for its overdue return to the bosom of the world traveller.
A fire ripped through a packed Coptic Orthodox church during morning services in Egypt’s capital on Sunday,quickly filling it with thick black smoke.
Egyptian officials said both sides agreed to a truce to end a flare-up of violence in which 15 children have been killed.
The slain Egyptian extremist lacked Osama bin Laden’s charisma,but wielded influence as an ideologue and strategist.
What is the relevance of debating the death penalty in 2022? Capital punishment is a central metaphor for the problems of state power,the fallibility of human judgment and the danger of making decisions that are irreversible.
Vladimir Putin has traded heavily on his theme of Russia as leading a worldwide uprising against Western hegemony. Again and again,he said Americans and their European allies live well at the expense of the rest of the world.
Australia has taken its first steps to secure the rights to co-host the UN’s key climate talks with its Pacific neighbours,but there is a long and complicated path ahead.
A new exhibition to mark 200 years since scholars first unlocked the mystery of hieroglyphs demonstrates just how much experts are still learning.