I will never forget the night the Berlin Wall fell, exactly 20 years ago on November 9 - because it changed the face of world sport, as well as politics. I was standing in the Reuters newsroom where I worked in the then German capital of Bonn , when my former colleague Martin Nesirky filed an urgent story from East Berlin. The old printer it emerged from went into alarm mode. The story that flashed...
by ERICA LIEPMANN , Causecast Associate Editor What is a Carrotmob , you ask? Well, it's an organized group of consumers banding together to encourage business owners to get serious about making their shops sustainable! Shop owners who are willing to make a bold commitment to being socially responsible and environmentally friendly get rewarded with lots of business. Carrotmobs put the power in the...
Oct 21: The UN Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany has released the latest data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrialized countries increased in 2007, which continued the upward trend of the previous six years. According to a release, data submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) show that greenhouse gas emissions of the 40 industrialized countries...
BONN, Germany - The industrialized world again in 2007 boosted, rather than reduced, its emissions of global-warming gases, the U.N. reported Wednesday, as international negotiators...
International negotiations were launched in December 2007 to draw up a United Nations agreement on tackling climate change for the period after 2012, when key provisions of the Kyoto Protocol will expire. The negotiations are due to be concluded at the Copenhagen climate conference on 7-18 December 2009. Three negotiating sessions at official level have been held so far this year, all in Bonn, Germany....
Germany: New video threatens October attack Last week German security forces arrested a German-Turkish citizen suspected of preparing bombs and posting al-Qaeda propaganda online. ---------- In a new video Islamic extremists threaten Germany with an attack in October. The video appeared Sunday on a militant-Islamic website that had published announcements and videos in the past of groups linked to...
Deutsche Welle reports that al Qaeda released a video today warning Germany of an attack there if the election doesn’t go the terrorists’ way; In the video, a man identified as Bekkay Harrach from Bonn demanded an end to Germany’s military mission in Afghanistan. He spoke German, and was dressed in a suit and tie and [...]
International terrorist organization al-Qaida released a video on Friday in which Bekkay Harrach, an Islamist from Bonn, threatens the German electorate ahead of next week's general election.
The Fiery Furnaces have announced dates for a forthcoming tour of North America. The band are set to kick off the North American jaunt on November 4 in Hoboken, NJ. The North American tour will be preceded by a tour of the UK and Europe which the band will embark on September 20. The Fiery Furnaces Tour dates: Oxford, Academy (20) Cambridge, Portland Arms (21) Paris, France La Maroquinerie (23) Antwerp,...
Bonn- Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday against experiments while Germany recovered from the economic crisis, on a one-day election tour in the vintage train of post-war figurehead Konrad Adenauer. Merkel's nostalgic journey on the Rhineg...
Bonn - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday began a one-day electioneering tour of Germany, in the vintage train of post-war figurehead Konrad Adenauer. Merkel's nostalgic journey on the Rhinegold train also commemorates the inauguration of Adenauer...
Something missing? (Image: NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA/A. Aloisi) From New Scientist: LIKE moths about a flame, thousands of tiny satellite galaxies flutter about our Milky Way. For astronomers this is a dream scenario, fitting perfectly with the established models of how our galaxy's cosmic neighbourhood should be. Unfortunately, it's a dream in more ways than one and the reality could hardly be more different....
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Industrialized nations excluding the United States are planning cuts in greenhouse gas emissions of between 15 and 21 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 under a new U.N. climate pact, official data showed on Tuesday. The numbers, issued to delegates at August 10-14 U.N. climate talks in Bonn, fall short of cuts of between 25 and...
I emailed Canada’s Chief Negotiator this morning to check in on the United Nations climate change discussions happening this week in Bonn, Germany. He soothed my heart by responding immediately from his BlackBerry amidst the main LCA session. (LCA stands for Long-term Cooperative Action – or, more descriptively, Leaders Can’t-get-enough Airtime — or, more solution-oriented,...
Bonn, Germany - Good vision is important when driving so as not to endanger oneself and others on the roadespecially from the age of the mid 40s and upward when eyesight gradually starts deteriorating. The Automobile Club of Europe (ACE) estimates th...
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