The first United Nations Environmental Assembly is under way in Nairobi, Kenya, where more than 150 high-level delegations are addressing environmental sustainability challenges.

Coronation Street star William Roache has told a jury he did not commit any sex offences.

UN experts met to review a draft report that raises the probability that climate change is man-made to 95% and warns of ever more extreme weather unless governments act.

One third of the food produced worldwide is wasted, costing the global economy around $750bn (€570bn) a year, said a report by the UN food agency.

The world must clamp down hard on the illegal global wildlife trade, the head of the UN’s environment agency warned yesterday, calling it a multibillion-dollar criminal business that is threatening to wipe out the planet’s most iconic species.

Lindsay Lohan is being sued by a paparazzi photographer.

JIM NEWSAM did not get his wish for a “Down double” yesterday, even if he played his part by winning the CCI three-star at Ballindenisk International Horse Trials in Cork.

SALES of household electrical gadgets will boom across the developing world in the next decade, wreaking environmental havoc if there are no new strategies to deal with the discarded TVs, cell phones and computers, a UN report said yesterday.

THE UN yesterday announced it would become “climate neutral”, starting by offsetting the greenhouse gas emissions caused by travel to the Bali conference on climate change.

United Nations and international maritime agencies promised to give Lebanon immediate technical advice today to help clean up an oil slick, and warned the operation could cost more than €50m.

Polar bears, hippos and freshwater fish are among more than 16,000 species of animal, bird, fish and plant threatened with global extinction, the World Conservation Union said today.

Technical chief Gunther Steiner has left Formula One and Red Bull Racing to pursue a career in NASCAR.

THE biggest marketing feeding frenzy in women’s golf is to be unleashed today as teenage prodigy Michelle Wie turns pro — a week before her 16th birthday.

MARAT Safin claimed he was deserted by Lady Luck as he crashed out of the French Open following a five-set, fourth-round thriller with 15th seed Tommy Robredo.

Spanish prodigy Rafael Nadal blasted the Roland Garros crowd for “behaving so badly” during his four-set victory over Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean in the fourth round of the French Open on Monday.

Ethnic Albanian extremists were today accused of killing a Kosovo Serb family of three whose bodies were found in their blazing home.

A man has survived for 19 hours in the Atlantic Ocean by clinging to a cool box after his 22-foot fishing boat sank, taking his life jacket and cell phone with it.