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President Barack Obama and leaders of seven other world economic powers agreed Wednesday to broad goals for reducing global warming, but they stopped well short of measures that environmentalists call critical to stopping the problem and also failed to get developing nations such as China and India to go along.

President Barack Obama made the world his boldest promise yet Wednesday in the battle to slow the heating of the planet, committing the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent by mid-century. The catch is that politics at home will determine if the U.S.-and Obama-can deliver.

The Group of Eight industrialized economies and other nations were working Wednesday to commit to a goal of keeping the world's average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius in a bid to contain global warming.

Coldplay's three-festival stint in Europe was completed last night as their Viva La Vida tour continued into Denmark as they headlined the Roskilde Festival.

The view that climate change is mainly driven by natural cycles, not by human-caused pollution, does not help polar bear conservation efforts, former group chairman Andrew Derocher said.

One question could dominate this week's gathering of the world's top economic powers in Italy: Will the United States and Europe act by themselves to cut emissions of the heat-trapping gases that are causing long-term global warming and will they be able to persuade fast-developing nations such as China and India to go along? President Barack Obama ...

The Malta Maritime Authority is investigating the accident involving the Malta registered MV Kapitan Lus that took place off Copenhagen, Denmark.

Ethnologue report for Denmark : "Kingdom of Denmark, Kongeriget Danmark. 5,413,392. Population includes 43,000 on Faroe Islands .

Blue skies as Roskilde music festival opens Posted on: Jul 02, 2009 - 05:03 PM by busybeeburns Copenhagen - US hip hop star Kanye West was the top act Thursday on the opening day of the annual Roskilde music festival, near the Danish capital Copenhagen, with some 65,000 visitors enjoying the festivities under blue skies.

The Little Mermaid may be its best-known icon, but there's much more to this Scandinavian gem.

A delegation of nine Fredericton residents boarded a plane from the Fredericton International Airport bound for Denmark on Canada Day.

A 15-year-old girl was raped in her tent as she camped out at the Roskilde Festival last night.

She started her career at this small elementary school as a young, inexperienced teacher ready to make a difference in the lives of her students.

Music and partying are the main ingredients to a good rock festival, but Denmark's Roskilde Festival also aims to encourage guests to save the planet.

Exercise requires the integrated activity of every organ and tissue in the body, and understanding how these respond to the decreased oxygen levels present at moderate to high altitude is the focus of the current special issue of High Altitude Medicine & Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert.

David Linaburg , Gerald Gregory and Nick Jenkins march to their own beat. There are a number of local jazz musicians who are not as celebrated as others.

For Ban Ki-moon, bringing about a new U.N. climate treaty by the end of this year is a must.

Wealthy nations should establish a fund that could spend $100 billion a year helping the world's poorest countries to tackle climate change, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.

Signe Ravn of Copenhagen, Denmark, center, takes a photo of the ABC ticker in New York's Times Square as twins Omar and Mike Felici of Staten Island react to the news that Michael Jackson has died.

The connection between Fort Wayne during a hot and muggy summer day and Copenhagen, Denmark, as winter descends may not seem obvious, but it is there.