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Climate survey pooh-poohs biofuels

BIOFUELS may be rising in popularity worldwide but policymakers largely reject them as a way to fight global warming, a survey said overnight.

Negotiation dismay at UN climate talks

ON the eve of the Kyoto protocol's 10th anniversary, campaigners voiced joy in Bali overnight as the Nobel peace award nailed climate change to the top of the political agenda.

Arctic ice melting at record rate

ARCTIC ice at the North Pole melted at a record rate in the northern hemisphere summer, the latest sign that climate change has accelerated in recent years, climate scientists say.

Rudd may send navy after whalers

AUSTRALIAN navy vessels could be deployed to track Japanese whalers as early as next week to gather evidence for a possible international legal battle.

McCanns 'guilty of extreme negligence'

THE mayor of the Portuguese town from which British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared has called the unresolved case and "stain'' on his community and accused her parents of abandonment.

Solomons Parliament dumps PM

SOLOMON Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare was ousted in a parliamentary vote of no confidence today.

Rudd issues terror warning at Bali memorial

TERRORISTS still pose a threat to Australian lives, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said today as he laid a wreath in honour of the Australians killed in two bombings in Bali.

AI program a fake chatroom romeo

INTERNET chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate person, trying to win your personal data and not your heart, an online security firm says.

Who ate all the pies? Hungry pooch did

ORGANISERS of today's world pie-eating championships were thrown into panic when a dog ate all the pies.

Pill to be sold without prescription

THE contraceptive pill will be available over the counter without a prescription next year under a pilot scheme to combat teenage pregnancy in Britain.