Shouting “Zionism is Racism” students pelted rocks, bricks and bottles at people leaving a Johannesburg college after a speech by Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres.

World leaders at the Earth Summit in South Africa have reached a compromise on the last details of a global plan to eradicate poverty and reverse environmental decline.

Irish non-governmental organisations have urged the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, to use Ireland’s influence to help shape the final declaration of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomed more than 100 world leaders to the World Summit today with a plea for them to work together to help the poor and rescue the world’s struggling environment.

Negotiators were upbeat today about the prospect of achieving further deals on tackling world poverty and the environment as heads of state prepared to join the Earth Summit in Johannesburg.

World leaders are under pressure to save the Earth Summit from disaster.

At the Earth Summit in Johannesburg, there is still no agreement on crucial issues.

About 10,000 protesters marched from a squalid township to the glittering venue of the World Summit to press demands for everything from land redistribution to a Palestinian state.

Ten thousand environmentalists and social activists are protesting outside the World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa.

The EU is determined to secure a positive outcome on environmental targets and deadlines at the earth summit in Johannesburg.

Seeking to demonstrate actions over words, the Earth Summit in South Africa today focused on public-private partnerships as a way to promote sustainable development.

Delegates at the UN World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa today focused on trying to get fresh water and sanitation to the world’s poor.

To the outrage of enviromentalists, industrialised nations and oil states at the World Summit on Sustainable Development worked today to water down a timetable for rapidly expanding the use of clean, renewable energy technologies around the globe.

Delegates at the World Summit on Sustainable Development today called for new agricultural technologies to be made available to poor farmers in the developing world.

South African officials have expressed regret after a Swiss delegate to the UN summit was assaulted in her hotel room and another was robbed while she slept.

As the UN environmental summit got under way today, Zimbabwean and Ethiopian groups held the first in a series of planned protests.

Northern Ireland first minister David Trimble is to attend this week's environmental World Summit in South Africa.

South African President Thabo Mbeki has welcomed delegates to the World Summit on Sustainable Development with a call to action to band together to save the global environment and combat poverty.

Ten years ago, Earth Summit delegates celebrated in the streets of Rio de Janeiro.