Without America, the prospects of a working treaty appear doomed.. The decision by the world’s biggest polluter to ditch the Kyoto Treaty was yesterday met with fury across the globe. The decision by the world’s biggest polluter to ditch the Kyoto Treaty was yesterday met with fury across the globe.Europe’s leaders reacted with outrage, but [...]
A number of sports, including the equestrian team, have already made bookings to use the facilities later this year.The base will cost the BOA £100,000 a year over five years to run, comparing favourably with the £1m it cost to run the two-month temporary camp on Australia’s Gold Coast prior to last summer’s successful Olympics. [...]
By her own admission, the task took her just a couple of days to complete. “We’re in this white limo purring through crowded Saturday-night streets Like in Hollywood,” the novel began. And it was enough to send Sue Fletcher at the publishers Hodder & Stoughton into a state of ecstatic optimism. She dispatched a white [...]
The main allegations against Mr Clinton are perjury and obstruction of justice. He could, in theory, be indicted on those charges as soon as the next president is sworn in next year.Politically, the announcement – leaked to news agencies last night – is a bombshell. Mr Gore has tried very hard to erase the memory [...]
Seven Kashmiris were killed and 50 injured in clashesbetween demonstrators yesterday, the latest victims of the storm that has blown up over the massacre of 35 Sikhs inKashmir two weeks ago.
The dead men were among a crowd protesting over the abduction of five people from the town of Anantnag, in southern Kashmir, a few days [...]
No action on aid should be taken for the time being, said Mr Nielson. “I would warn against stopping the co-operation as the only way of being able to influence a country.”Several countries are reviewing bilateral aid packages to Harare, including Sweden and Britain.. Britain is considering how it can step up aid to famine-stricken [...]
In vain, Delage screamed his protests and waved his shark gun The clubs continued to fall as the nets closed in. Within minutes, many of the trusting mammals were dead and the turquoise of Miami Bay was incarnadined.”I felt sorry for the creatures I had led to their deaths,” Delage said “They were more than [...]
By the end of March 1996, almost three quarters of delegates to the Republican national convention will have been picked in a string of primaries packed into seven weeks, covering almost every important state, including California, Texas, New York and Florida.No longer will a candidate have the luxury of putting up an unexpectedly good showing [...]
Outside Number Ten, the Loyalists said it was “make your mind up time” for the IRA.Defending the renewal of contacts, cut off after the killing of two police officers by the IRA, the spokesman said: “If the phone rings, people pick it up. All [Northern Ireland Secretary] Mo [Mowlam] was doing was – and to [...]
That is still reasonable value, while small acquisitions could add spice.. Hotel shares have had a pretty rough time of late. Hit by concerns over the impact of the strong pound on the level of overseas visitors, the sector has fallen sharply and last year’s euphoria which spawned a long list of new issues, has [...]