Canada’s environment minister has said his country is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

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The leaders of Australia’s two major political parties began negotiating power deals with independent lawmakers today after the nation’s closest election in decades failed to deliver a clear mandate to govern.

Prime minister Julia Gillard said today no major party had won a majority of parliamentary seats in Australia’s general election and she had started negotiating with independent MPs in an effort to cling to power.

Australia's government was thrown into turmoil today when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was challenged by his deputy for the leadership just months before national elections.

A senior campaign worker for Canada’s governing Conservative Party has resigned after admitting writing a pro-Iraq war speech for prime minister Stephen Harper that plagiarised another world leader’s address.

THE winner of Canada’s election began facing the challenge yesterday of pushing his agenda of tax cuts and more defence spending through a parliament he does not control.

Thousands of environmentalists and government officials from around the world were descending on Montreal to brainstorm on how to slow the effects of greenhouse gases and global warming – and likely witness the collapse of the Canadian government.

CANADA'S Supreme Court said yesterday that proposed legislation allowing gay marriage is constitutional, but the government cannot force religious officials to perform unions against their beliefs.