Revising his stand on global warming, President George Bush called for a halt in the growth of US greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and urged other major polluting nations to develop national goals to address climate change.

A climate conference of the world's biggest polluters ended today without fixed targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions.

An al-Qaida-linked group said it carried out the Algerian truck bombings that killed at least 26 people in carefully timed blasts that drew swift international condemnation.

Delegates and scientists from around the world opened the biggest climate conference in Bali, Indonesia early today, aiming to achieve an international pact by 2009 to combat global warming – or risk economic and environmental disaster caused by rising temperatures.

A Nobel-winning UN panel of scientists today issued a stark vision of human hardship and vanishing species in a world growing increasingly hot.

The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer age at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning UN scientific panel said in a landmark report today, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of species extinction.

A week-long conference aimed at producing a definitive guide to global warming began today.

China will take part in a climate change meeting convened by the US government this week, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said today.

Pacific Rim leaders today agreed that the world needs to “slow, stop and then reverse” greenhouse gas emissions, and adopted goals on reducing energy intensity and reforestation as part of the effort.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said G8 leaders in Germany agreed today to call for "substantial cuts" to greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, hailing it as a big success on climate change.

European and Asian foreign ministers have agreed to set a 2009 deadline to complete negotiations on a new international climate change pact to limit greenhouse gases, diplomats said today.

Philippine security officials raised the terror alert to the highest level in two southern regions, including one where authorities foiled a bomb attack on a national athletic event, due to the threat of bombings, police said today.

THE UN’s top climate change official says the EU has sent a “very encouraging” signal to developing countries by committing itself to bold measures against global warming.

The September 11 attacks, the Bali bombing and plots against British targets were among the confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon.

Gunbattles between al-Qaida-linked guerrillas and the Filipino military in the south of the country killed at least one marine and wounded 24 troops, the military said today, as the country’s president said the government was on the verge of wiping out the militants.

Indonesia’s embassy in Australia was closed today after a suspicious package containing what authorities described as a “biological agent” was delivered there.

AL-QAIDA spent less than €45,000 on each of its major attacks except the September 11 suicide hijackings, and one of its hallmarks is using readily available items like mobile phones and knives as weapons, a UN report says.

The Al-Qaida terror network spent less than €44,600 on each of its major attacks except the September 11 suicide hijackings and one of its hallmarks is using readily-available items like mobile phones and knives as weapons, a new United Nations report says.

Three Moroccans were today charged with the murder of 190 people in the the Madrid terror attacks

US President George Bush stood just miles from the scene of last year’s deadly nightclub bombings in Bali, Indonesia, and praised the world’s most populous Muslim nation for battling back against terrorism.

PRESIDENT George W Bush pressed for closer Asian partnerships in the war on terrorism, carrying his appeal yesterday to free-trade partner Singapore and planning for a visit to Bali, Indonesia, under unusually tight security precautions.

The US national terror alert was raised from yellow to orange today following an intelligence warning of a 'high risk' of a terrorist attack.

The US national terror alert was raised from yellow to orange today following an intelligence warning of a “high risk” of a terrorist attack.

The FBI has warned that al-Qaida is likely to attempt a “spectacular” attack intended to inflict large-scale casualties and damage the US economy.