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New York - The deal reached by the world's richest nations to limit global warming to within 2 degrees centigrade by 2050 is "not sufficient," and should be backed by medium-term measures to prevent the catastrophic impact of climate change, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday.

NEW YORK Treatment with proton-pump inhibitors could have the opposite of the intended effect in healthy people, according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to launch Climate Week NYC to support the climate change summit of world leaders planned for September.

The history of art education is as complicated as the history of art. Workshops gave way to academies, then artists rebelled against the academies - and ended up forming their own artist-run schools like the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College.

New York Once again, tabletop and gift showroom building, 41 Madison is putting together its lobby display for the upcoming New York Gift Show, August 1620.

Here is some of what the secretary general of the United Nations did in May: helped coordinate UN responses to the H1N1 virus in New York and Geneva, where he also attended a World Heath Organization assembly and persuaded heads of pharmaceutical companies to donate vaccines; addressed a summit in Bahrain on dealing with disasters; met with ...

As expected, Lewis County legislators at a special meeting Wednesday formally endorsed the start of a county bus system, possibly sometime next month.

The world is on track to produce a new global climate treaty by December, the top United Nations climate official said Friday as delegates from more than 100 nations concluded 12 days of talks in Bonn, Germany.

The World Science Festival in New York kicked off on Wednesday, starting five days of of talks, walks and performances touching on everything from astrophysics to next-generation nuclear power to trends in urban planning.

Bruno Kroker, 93, who fled his native Germany during the Third Reich and worked as a journalist in China before becoming a communicator for the National Council of Churches USA, the World Council of Churches and the United Presbyterian Church, died early Thursday here at Meadowlands Hospital Center.

As an initial round of climate change talks ended in Bonn on Friday, a US expert said he had slim hopes that a comprehensive agreement could be reached in time to be ratified at a UN summit in Copenhagen at the end of the year.

New York City Ballet 's eight-week spring season is in its penultimate week. Characteristically and incomparably prodigal in its wealth of repertory, it has so far introduced 13 different programs of choreography, including the full-length "Coppelia" and "Romeo + Juliet," three major pas de deux and no fewer than 34 one-act ballets.

The following motorists are charged with driving while intoxicated and related offenses: Norman J. Fuhrman, 23, Apopka, Fla., was stopped at 1:21 a.m. Sunday on Route 283 in the town of LeRay.

Three more rounds of climate-change talks will be held ahead of a major conference in Copenhagen in December, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change said Thursday.

The 2009 class leaders of Copenhagen Central School are Augusta A. Williams, valedictorian, Joseph S. Foy, salutatorian, and Michael K. McDonald, vocational leader.

F or the moment, at least, Times Square is once again a spectacularly crazy place-crazy enough on a recent afternoon to make a seasoned police officer shake his head with a bemused grin and mutter, 'Just when you thought you'd seen everything ...' People were sitting on lawn chairs in the middle of Broadway.

File - Former King Constantine of Greece and his wife Queen Anne Marie pass press photographers on their way to the Royal Theater in Copenhagen in this Thursday, May 13, 2004 file photo.

After tallying up proceeds from the 24th annual North Country Goes Green Irish Festival, organizers decided to celebrate its record haul by expanding the festival's scholarship program.

The U.N. chief said Monday that a second nuclear test by North Korea would represent "a clear violation" of a United Nations Security Council resolution.

Organizers of this year's ambitious climate change talks Wednesday provided a broad range of options to stem global warming in the much-awaited first draft of a document which will be considered next month in Bonn by world governments.