CLIMATE change will be among the big issues at this week’s meeting of the world’s business and political elite in Davos, Switzerland, and they could start by confronting their own carbon footprint.

Suicide bombers carried out the attacks on three crowded restaurants on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, a top anti-terror official said yesterday.

The standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and Japan’s enduring ban on US beef imports were at the top of the agenda as US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice headed to Japan today.

A roadside explosion rocked the southern Afghan city of Kandahar today, killing a reported five people and wounding at least 25, some seriously, as US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made her first visit to the country, police said.