Climate scientist says he considered suicide

The UK scientist at the center of a controversy surrounding e-mails leaked from a leading UK climate research unit has admitted the strain of the affair led him to consider suicide.

China’s premier Wen Jiabao will attend the U.N. climate summit in Denmark in December and the country will take action to cut growth in carbon dioxide emissions, China said Thursday.

Nearly two decades after the killing of toddler James Bulger by two 10-year-old boys, what remains one of Britain’s most notorious child murders this week proved once again it has the power to shock and outrage.

Australia warned Israel Thursday of a possible diplomatic rift if Israel condoned the use of fraudulent Australian passports in the killing of a Hamas leader.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner signed a decree Tuesday requiring all ships navigating from Argentina to the disputed Falkland Islands to carry a government permit.

An 11-year-old girl rescued from the rubble of her home Thursday in an hours-long effort has died, her family said Friday.

The leader of a Kurdish political party which was banned by Turkey’s highest court vowed Monday to continue “the struggle for freedom.”

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says those who question whether he has power in his country are going by “stereotypes” and “stigmas.”

Advocates for sex workers in South Africa have warned that this summer’s World Cup could be a public health disaster. There have been calls for the country to decriminalize prostitution to help tackle the spread of HIV

Evacuees and orphans from Haiti were arriving in the United States on Tuesday, as frustrations and security problems mounted in the earthquake-devastated Caribbean nation.

Police in Hong Kong said they have arrested one man in connection with an acid attack that injured 30 people at a popular tourist haunt Saturday night.

Malawian police have arrested a man for allegedly putting up posters supporting homosexuality, which is illegal in the southern African nation.

Police arrested the suspected top leader of the Basque separatist group ETA early Sunday along with two other senior suspects from the outlawed armed group, Spain’s Interior Ministry said.

Eurostar rail services remained suspended for a third day on Monday as the cross-channel operator worked to fix a fault which caused a series of breakdowns blamed on winter weather.

At least nine people, including a child, drowned when an overcrowded boat carrying them capsized in southern India Saturday, officials said.

Guatemalan authorities have issued arrest warrants for two prominent brothers in connection with last year’s slaying of a lawyer who left behind a videotape saying President Alvaro Colom would be responsible if anything happened to him, the suspects’ attorney confirmed Wednesday.