Global warming has accelerated since the 1970s and broken more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, UN climate experts say.

Sylvester Stallone is convinced the media interest in the Burma cyclone will help to highlight the injustices in the Southeast Asian nation.

A BURMA state radio station yesterday said close to 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for in a single town after the devastating Tropical Cyclone Nargis swept through.

More than 240 people have died in Burma from a powerful cyclone, according to media reports.