Iraq today said it was ready to discuss a return of UN weapons inspectors, but only in a broader context of ending sanctions and restoring Iraqi sovereignty over the whole country.

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

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.

A major study being dubbed the "Environmental Ansbacher" will be published later this morning.

THE Government is to push ahead with plans to build incinerators around the country later this year.