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United Nations Secretary-General en route to Italy to meet with G8 leaders 8 July 2009 - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading today to the Italian city of LAquila, where he will meet with the leaders who are attending the annual summit of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations, after wrapping up his first official visit to Ireland. In a letter sent to G8 leaders ahead of their 8-10 July summit, Mr. Ban highlighted climate change and development as some of the current challenges requiring action. Among other things, Mr. Ban asked G8 governments to take the lead on the issue of climate change by making ambitious and firm commitments to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25-40 per cent, the levels the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says are required on the part of industrialized countries to ward off... [read full story]
While shopping at the Union Square farmer’s market, Mr. Henry passed a stand selling fresh, farm-raised turkeys. Small, firm, not fat, they looked almost like a different species from the big-breasted turkey grandmother used to...
www.wharton.universia.net/index.cfm?fa=printArticle&ID=1793&language=english Rafael Pampillón, (his blog) professor of economic analysis at IE Business School in Spain and F. Xavier Mena, professor of economics at ESADE...
Sunday, November 22, 2009 Pioneering Soviet cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov has died aged 83. A statement by the Russian Space Agency declared that he died of "unspecified causes" last Saturday in Moscow. Feoktistov was...
Auxerre coach Jean Fernandez, pictured in October 2009, was finding it hard to come to terms with seeing his side take control of the French first division at the weekend. Auxerre coach Jean Fernandez was finding it hard to...
