With few exceptions, the world's big industrialised nations are struggling to meet the greenhouse gas reductions they committed to achieve in the embattled Kyoto pact on climate change.

Most of the world's big industrialised nations are struggling to meet the greenhouse gas reductions they committed to achieve in the embattled Kyoto pact on climate change.

A man has shot dead four people during a church service in the US before abducting his wife, whom he later shot dead at another location.

The mother of a four-year-old boy who took over €8,000 worth of crack cocaine to his nursery school has surrendered, but police were still seeking the boy’s father today.