Obama Needs Stitches After Basketball Blow
Barack Obama has been elbowed in the face during a friendly game of basketball, leaving the US President needing 12 stitches in a cut lip.
Vladimir Putin: Leonardo DiCaprio is ‘a real man’
Russian PM Vladimir Putin has praised Leonardo DiCaprio as “a real man” for his persistence in getting to a St Petersburg summit on saving tigers.
Summit agrees tiger recovery plan
Governments of 13 countries where tigers still live have endorsed a plan to save the big cats from extinction. Delegates at a summit in St Petersburg, Russia, agreed to double tiger numbers by 2022.
New Zealand mine explosion: all miners believed dead after huge second blast
“But this takes us to the point where I’m unlikely to see my workmates
walk out of that mine again,” he said. John Key, the New Zealand prime minister, said the event was “a national tragedy” and that the country must “make now way for sorrow”.
Obama Meets with Top Advisers on Korea Situation
U.S. President Barack Obama met Tuesday with his top advisers about the situation on the Korean peninsula, in the wake of North Korea’s artillery attack on a South Korean island.
Cambodia’s grief
Now the Diamond Island bridge disaster may have turned it into the saddest corner of Cambodia.
Private sector involvement is no silver bullet to the climate crisis
Poor countries need access to energy to develop. Some 1.6 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity and nearly 3 billion people cook with low quality biomass fuels – such as dung, agriculture residues and charcoal – often on open fires.
Palestinian Leader Insists on Halt to Settlements
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, said Sunday that any American proposal for restarting Israeli-Palestinian negotiations must include East Jerusalem as part of a complete halt in Israeli settlement building.
Tigers could be extinct in just 12 years
Tigers could be extinct by 2022 due to loss of habitat and poaching, experts warned at a summit yesterday. Only about 3,200 of the cats remain in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago, said the World Wildlife Fund’s James Leape.
