Greenhouse gases rose to a symbolic milestone in 2015, taking climate change into a new phase which could last generations even if governments act to curb manmade global warming, the UN World Meteorological Organisation has warned.

A “moderate” El Nino weather system has developed in the tropical Pacific Ocean and could create unusual and severe weather patterns around the world, the UN weather agency said today.

In the biggest cocaine seizure in US maritime history, the coastguard found 13 tons (11.9 tonnes) of the drug aboard a fishing boat that aroused suspicion because it had no working fishing equipment and few fish.

Coastguards have seized more than 12 tonnes of cocaine in what officials are calling the largest seizure of the drug in maritime history.