Copenhagen News

U.S. President Barack Obama will go to Copenhagen for a U.N. climate change meeting on December 9, hoping to add momentum to an international process despite slow progress on a domestic bill to cut carbon emissions.

Australia took a step toward carbon trading on Tuesday when the opposition promised to support a revised government scheme, aiding the outlook for a U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen next month.

Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday that the world must press Pakistan to stop supporting terrorists who continue to target India .

The official says those coming include the heads of state or government of Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Spain and the United Kingdom.

A leading climate change scientist whose private e-mails are included in thousands of documents that were stolen by hackers and posted online said Sunday the leaks may have been aimed at undermining next month's global climate summit in Denmark.

23** FILE - In this July 19, 2007 file photo, an iceberg is seen melting off the coast of Ammasalik, Greenland .

Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online -- stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change.

The trip from a strict Pakistani boarding school to a bohemian bar in Philadelphia has defined David Headley's life, according to those who know the middle-age man at the center of a global terrorism investigation.

Maj. Gen. Joseph J. Taluto, The Adjutant General for the State of New York, announces the promotion of members of the New York Army National Guard in recognition of their capabilities for additional responsibility and leadership.

Two Chicago men accused of plotting an armed attack on a Danish newspaper may have been involved in planning the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, authorities in that country say.

The battle against global warming could be helped if the world slowed population growth by making free condoms and family planning advice more widely available, the U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday.

NEW YORK Berlingske Media -- Denmark's largest news publisher, with 14 dailies, dozens of other, local newspapers, Web sites and regional radio stations -- will deploy the Saxotech Mediaware Center for content creation and sharing and channel management for more than 80 print and digital product titles.

The global financial crisis has led to a dangerous drop in energy investment around the world which could choke off the nascent economic recovery, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

The " climate divide " between countries that are rich and poor, insulated from climate impacts and vulnerable to them, was on vivid display in the Maldives over the last few days.

While recordable DVDs are unreliable and unpredictable, often failing in as few as two years, a new 1,000 year DVD made of high tech, diamond-hard stone promises to preserve irreplaceable digital files for the ages.

President Obama yesterday praised Wisconsin for linking teacher pay to student performance.

Mikkel Hess , makes music for films, theater and multimedia , has a current radio and MTV hit in Europe, and plays tennis.

Feds: Chicago men charged in Danish terrorism case discussed attack on Indian military college CHICAGO a ' A Chicago man charged with scheming to launch a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper also discussed a possible attack against a military college in India and advised a member of a Pakistan -based terrorist group on how to slip people into ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu 's 3-year-old granddaughter, Onalenna, was puzzled. Her older cousin, Mungi, had just deflated a large, blow-up globe to demonstrate the imminent danger of climate change .

Reservations are still possible for the coup de grace event of the celebration of our Hudson River: SUNY-New Paltz's November 7 daylong symposium, "Revisiting the Hudson: 19th-Century Landscape Painting in Context," taking place under the auspices of the college's Dorsky Museum and Art History department in Lecture Center 102 from 9 a.m. on.