The United Nations’ leading climate change expert said Group of Eight nations had “clearly ignored” taking any concrete action to accomplish his panel’s new goal of limiting climate change.

US President George Bush today seemed resigned to the possibility that World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz could lose his job over conflict-of-interest charges involving his girlfriend.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell joins senior officials from the Group of Eight nations in Rabat tomorrow for a meeting with representatives of 23 countries across North Africa and the Middle East to discuss reforms in the Arab world.

A former top official of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard, and cousin of the deposed leader, surrendered to coalition forces in Baghdad today, the US military said.