The world still isn’t close to preventing what leaders call a dangerous level of man-made warming, a new United Nations report says. That’s despite some nations’ recent pledges to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions.

The United Nation’s nuclear agency today said it will give North Korea one more chance to abandon its covert weapons programme and allow inspectors back into the country.

Washington’s war-like stance may discourage rather than persuade Saddam Hussein to allow weapons inspectors to return to Iraq, leader of the United Nations monitoring team conceded today.