Non-binding targets set at UN conferences can be ignored, but a €100-per-ton levy on all countries would be easier to enforce and benefit everyone, says Mats Persson.

MEPs are to vote today to approve new measures tightening regulation on banks and financial institutions.

Britain's chancellor George Osborne will today endorse sweeping European supervisory powers over banks and financial institutions in response to the economic crisis.

A Swedish judge who admitted soliciting prostitutes at a brothel was today fired by a disciplinary board.