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Air New Zealand successfully flew a test flight powered by second-generation biofuel, and hailed it as a "significant milestone" in the development of sustainable fuels for aircraft.

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The global recession is re-exposing fissures in United States-China relations that Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. spent more than two years smoothing over.

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A feat of biological alchemy that offers scientists the hope of growing replacement organs from patients’ own skin cells has been named the scientific breakthrough of the year. Cellular reprogramming allows scientists to rewind …

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Malaysia is zooming in on forests with a satellite in order to fight illegal logging which its government says is harming the major timber exporting country, a report said.

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Shares of Japanese convenience store chains are expected to keep outperforming the retail sector well into next year as economic problems have consumers choosing cheap prepared meals, instead of eating out.

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Gainesville’s first community hospital has been on life support since the Shands Healthcare system in northern Florida bought it a dozen years ago.

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It may seem perverse that many economists have concluded that the appropriate medicine for the U.S. economic trouble is a fresh dose of the very course that delivered the disarray: Spend without limit.

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A proposed Internet filter dubbed the "Great Aussie Firewall" is promising to make Australia one of the strictest Internet regulators among democratic countries.

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Chinese warships headed toward Somali waters Friday to combat piracy, the first time the communist country has sent ships on a mission that could involve fighting so far beyond its territorial waters.

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A $4.4 billion canal that would stretch from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea would provide an abundance of power and fresh water, Jordanian officials say.

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The quantum world is now one of the most closely scrutinised areas of science, and throughout 2008 new discoveries have poured in.

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The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.

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In its annual list of the year’s top ten scientific breakthroughs, the journal Science has given top honours to research that produced ‘made-to-order’ cell lines by reprogramming cells from ill patients. These cell …

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Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev sternly urged Ukraine to fully pay its $2.1 billion debt for Russian natural gas supplies or face sanctions.

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The development seems likely to further unnerve European Union countries, already wary over their growing dependence on Russian energy.

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Ethanol production opened the door to the renewable fuels industry. The industry now must get past an imposing wall of federal regulations and market conditions if it hopes to grow, said a Purdue University …

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U.S. President-elect Barack Obama showed other politicians how to harness the power of the Web in 2008, bringing political campaigns kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

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Programming biological cells so that they behave like engineering parts is the focus of research at a new UK center launched today, thanks to an £8 million ($11.9 million) grant from the Engineering and …

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A cancer treatment proposed by Florida man has cleared a major hurdle, according to new research published online in the Journal of Experimental Therapeutics and Oncology.

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Police in Finland use human blood from a mosquito caught inside a stolen car to identify a suspect in the theft.

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Chinese firms will buy two billion dollars’ worth of flat-screen monitors from Taiwanese companies to aid the island’s economy in the face of the global downturn, state media reported.

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A month ago we reported that Google is trying to sublease one of the three buildings on its brand new Kirkland campus. Now it’s trying to lease part of a second building, as well.

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Research done by scientists in Italy and Switzerland has shown that carbon nanotubes may be the ideal "smart" brain material. Their results, published December 21 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature …

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Biz Stone cofounder of Twitter says disasters are when the service comes into its own.

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The next decade will see the world become increasingly reliant on robotic labour, according to researchers, who warn that there could also be some unintended social consequences. "Just as we depend on mobile phones …

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By eschewing any U.S. government assistance, Ford runs the risk of falling behind GM and Chrysler.

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Indian bankers amazed at U.S. credit excesses.

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Glaciers in Switzerland are melting away at an accelerating rate and many will vanish this century, two new studies suggest.

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The US Federal Aviation Administration has given the green light for the world’s first commercial spaceport, New Mexico authorities sai.

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Duncan Goose, founder of the British bottled water company One, uses the proceeds to fund clean-water projects in Africa.

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The world’s biggest automaker, is likely to report its first annual operating loss in 71 years, Japanese media reported.

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If the growth in CO2 emissions is to be constrained, the world cannot afford a coal renaissance, a major scientific meeting is told.

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The US space agency is planning to launch a satellite that can map where all the carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere.

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Disregard what you may have heard about how consumers living in the big four emerging market countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — will rescue the world’s developed nations from recession. That won’t …

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Japan’s Honda Motor Co. Wednesday announced a venture to develop lithium-ion batteries, saying environmentally friendly hybrid cars were heading for the mass market despite the global auto industry slump.

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Internet experts and activists weigh in with predictions on the future of the Internet.

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Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday that it will shorten the amount of time that it retains data about its users’ online behavior — including Internet search records — to three months from 13 months and …

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Researchers in Peru say they have discovered the ruins of an entire city – possibly the "missing link" between ancient cultures.

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In a paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society’s (OSA) open-access journal, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley describe a method for using microalgae for making biofuel. The …

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A report released today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union provides new insights on the potential for abrupt climate change and the effects it could have on the United States, identifying …

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With annual returns of 10 percent coupled with low risk, wind farm cooperatives are drawing growing numbers of investors in Britain — good news for Europe’s hopes to lead the world in renewable energy.

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The global economy could fall into prolonged crisis, spreading social unrest unless governments quickly implement promised stimulus packages, the IMF’s managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said.

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The European Union’s green deal must be bigger, bolder and more ambitious to avoid being dwarfed when President-elect Barack Obama announces his own clean energy program.

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International carriers are expected to consolidate significantly in the coming year, putting pressure on their U.S. rivals to do the same.

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U.S. policy makers are expected this week to lower their target for the overnight federal funds rate to 0.5 percent, a record low. The Fed will then have to resort to mostly untested tools …

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Scientists have discovered how cancer spreads round the body raising the possibility it could be stopped.

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The directive follows a pledge by the top leadership to take measures to stimulate domestic demand.

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When President-elect Barack Obama says he wants to get the economy moving again, he means it quite literally.

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They said their accord, which offers a swathe of concessions to polluting companies and countries, would not jeopardize their target of cutting emissions by 20 percent by 2020.

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Archaeologists find what could be the oldest surviving brain unearthed in Britain, dating back more than 2,000 years.

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The world must avoid backsliding in fighting global warming and work out a "Green New Deal" to fix its twin climate and economic crises, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

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University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving.

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One in three UK adults or 13 million people will be obese by 2012, finds research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

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California’s utilities, refineries and large factories must transform their operations to cut greenhouse gas emissions as part of a new climate plan before state regulators.

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Levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) in China are nearly twice the global average. Nationwide research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has shown that almost 10% of Chinese TB cases are …

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Environment Secretary Hilary Benn calls for a Kyoto-like international agreement on food supply.

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Main elements of the proposal include a better system to monitor and report drug side effects and an industry code of conduct to ensure information about treatments is objective.

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The 23 fugitives named by the EPA are accused of smuggling ozone-depleting chemicals, dumping hazardous waste into waterways and trafficking in polluting car.

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Developing countries need to make big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if "dangerous" climate change is to be avoided, a report warns.

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The U.S. economy will need further injections of public money to help it pull out of trouble, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said.

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Governments, distracted by the economic crisis, are not paying enough attention to cybercrime and allowing illegal networks to expand, a study by McAfee, the Internet security company, found.

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A new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that more than half of U.S. adults play video games of some kind.

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A recession and a decline in the pound pushed Britain’s GDP below France’s this year and it will be passed by Italy in 2009, the Center for Economics and Business Research said.

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As much as any country, Egypt illustrates the push-me-pull-you nature of technology under an oppressive government. Young people flock to Facebook, in a way I never could have imagined.

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U.S. congressional Democrats are drafting legislation for tight government control of the crippled auto industry.

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With the stock market in turmoil and housing in a slump, appliance manufacturers are taking the long view and retooling their offerings for aging baby boomers. The offerings are largely geared for the roughly …

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Chile’s glaciers are on the retreat, a sign of global warming but also a threat to fresh water reserves at the southern end of South America, a report has found.

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As it stands now, using a mobile phone drains its battery. A new discovery could lead to phones that get charged whenever they are used.

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The economic downturn has decimated the U.S. market for recycled materials like cardboard, plastic, newspaper and metals, leaving more material headed for landfills.

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European researchers have developed a cost-effective method for manufacturing flexible displays in much the same way that newspapers are printed. Their work promises to revolutionise packaging, advertising and even clothing.

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The Indian government said that it would increase stimulus spending, a day after the central bank again cut interest rates.

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Healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive kids or memory-impaired older folks, several scientists contend in a provocative commentary.

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Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition …

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Saying that the U.S. economy would probably worsen before it improved, the president-elect pledged Sunday to pursue a plan "equal to the task ahead."

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With political efforts to tackle global warming advancing slower than a Greenland glacier, schemes for saving Earth’s climate system that once were dismissed as crazy or dangerous are gaining in status.

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Intel’s chief technology officer Justin Rattner has been detailing the latest research from Intel labs into power saving and generation. Chief among the systems being developed are "wireless identification and sensing platform," or WISPs.

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A therapeutic vaccine to inhibit the spread of HIV will be available within five years, according to a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who helped discover the virus.

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Scientists from around the world proved their green credentials by participating in a conference on climate change and carbon dioxide storage in the virtual world.

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The EU’s climate package is getting a rough ride.

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The United States and China will finance trade by developing countries amid a global crisis that has battered credit markets, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in Beijing.

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Growing crops in salt water is becoming necessary to overcome shortages of fresh water, scientists say.

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Oil prices have dropped more than $100 a barrel from record highs over $147 in July, as the global credit crunch has eaten into demand in large consumer nations.

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The European Central Bank and the Bank of England sharply reduced interest rates in a day of major moves by the global monetary authorities.

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Zhou Xiaochuan, the head of China’s central bank, said the U.S. should lower its deficits and raise savings.

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The so-called green component of a stimulus plan would cost at least $15 billion a year, and perhaps considerably more, said aides working on the package.

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After years of being blamed for job losses in other countries, India’s high-tech companies and outsourcing firms are going through a downturn of their own.

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What does a teenage brain on Google look like? Do all those hours spent online rewire the circuitry? Could these kids even relate better to emoticons than to real people?

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Did your parents tell you to remember your scarf when you went out, so you wouldn’t catch a cold? Today, the advice might be: Remember your cell phone.

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Increasing noise pollution in the world’s oceans is threatening the survival of whales and dolphins, a UN-backed conference says.

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Scientists have cracked one of the many mysteries of Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour Venus.

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One of the world’s largest wind farms, which will help power around a half a million homes, has been approved.

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Russia plans to invest some $10 billion in nanotechnology development programs in the mid-term, a deputy prime minister announced at an international nanotechnology forum in Moscow.

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The chairman of the Chinese sovereign wealth fund said China had no plans for further investments in Western financial institutions, nor did it have any plans to "save" the world through economic policies.

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Investors in China and India might be excused for feeling a bit of whiplash these days. Three months ago, Asia’s two nascent superpowers were said to be immune from the credit crisis gripping developed …

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Watching video through virtual-reality goggles of a mannequin’s body while you look down at your own can trick your brain into believing the mannequin’s body is yours. Swedish neuroscientists find that threatening the mannequin’s …

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Distributing the gains from globalization could be a more socially productive process.

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General Motors said it needed $12 billion in loans and a $6 billion line of credit and that it will cut jobs, factories, brands and executive pay.

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In a study in the advance online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a …

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A leading UN scientist says countries must work together to tackle the threat of asteroids colliding with the Earth.

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The Federal Reserve’s new consumer credit program is well intended, but $200 billion is only a fraction of the credit that will be pulled out from under American consumers in the next 18 months.

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Scientists announce promising trial results for a new drug for jet lag pill that can reset the body’s natural sleep rhythms.

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Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig argues that the entertainment industry should let fans copy their products and create something new.

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Border (in)security A travel industry group has called on the US government to halt its use of new machinery that remotely reads government issued identification cards at border crossings until the safety of the …

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The country’s status as custodian of the world’s wealth is under threat by a global economic upheaval it cannot control and miscues by the banks that made Switzerland great.

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Brazil’s environment minister has plans to reduce deforestation in the Amazon region by up to 70%, as UN climate talks begin.

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The best hope to keep the global economy growing may be people like Wei Yufang.

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Climate advisors are talking ’bout new generation.

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Japan fought its way out of deflation with a policy measure known as quantitative easing, which involved flooding banks with far more cash than was needed to keep short-term rates at zero.

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Police forces will be remotely searching hard drives as Europe steps up the fight against hi-tech thieves.

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The euro zone may not be perfect, but it’s warmer inside.

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Laptop, cell phone and iPod owners tired of having their devices run out of charge after a few hours have been patiently waiting for the next portable power source to arrive.

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While the union representing 139,000 workers for the Detroit carmakers has not yet agreed to reopen contracts at General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler, industry analysts say it seems inevitable that it will have …

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With Facebook Connect, users can log onto a variety of sites and see their friends’ activities there.

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Motorists will have to switch to electric cars if Britain is to meet its legallybinding commitment to cut carbon dioxide emissions a Government report warns.

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President Hu Jintao warned that China could lose its competitive edge as trade growth slows amid the global financial crisis.

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The U.N. says the number of undernourished people worldwide is climbing toward 1 billion as high food prices squeeze the poorest. This report, first in a periodic five-part series on the future of food, …