Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik testified yesterday that he had planned to capture and decapitate former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his shooting massacre on Utoya island.

Al Gore and the UN climate panel’s chief scientist will accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway today for sounding the alarm over what the former US vice president called the “planetary emergency” of global warming.

Victims of climate change appealed today for a vast increase in international aid to protect and compensate them for rising seas, crop-killing drought and other likely impacts of global warming.

Environmentalists have accused the United States of trying to undermine the credibility of the United Nations committee on climate change by seeking to unseat the committee’s outspoken chairman.