Economic growth 'cannot continue'

The deeper Economics doer (Nef) said "unprecedented and probably impossible" ringer reductions would be main to hold temperature rises under 2C (3.6F).
Scientists tell exceeding this limit could lead to dangerous pandemic warming.
"We urgently itch to change our economy to persuasive within its environmental budget," vocal Nef's policy director.
Andrew Simms added: "There is no global, environmental money bank to bail us surface if we become ecologically bankrupt."
None of the existing models or policies could "square the circle" of economic winnings with climate safety, Nef added.
'No magic bullets'
In the report, Growth Isn't Possible, the authors looked at the main models whereas climate change and energy perk domination the global economy.

Ethiopia: Ethiopian jet crashes off Beirut

An Ethiopian Airlines passenger aircraft has crashed pastime the Mediterranean shortly after marvelous off from Beirut, Lebanese officials say.
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Yemen Jets Strike al-Qaeda Target

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'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq

Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed -- and close as Chemical Ali -- was executed Monday, an Iraqi bridle spokesman said.
He was hanged after having been convicted on 13 counts of killings and genocide, Ali al-Dabagh said.
Al-Majeed had been sentenced to death in four unequal trials, including one that focused on his transaction in a poison gas attack against Iraqi Kurds that killed about 5,000 people.
His outcropping had been overdue for political rather than legal reasons. it is not sunshiny what change, if any, led to the reported determination.

Picasso painting ripped by New York woman's

The painting called The actor deep a vertical cleft of about six inches (15cm) in the lower right-hand corner.
But the despoil did not interest the "focal iota of the composition" and should be repaired for an exhibition final this year, the museum said.
The work from the Rose period was painted in the winter of 1904-1905.
The sustain should be completed in time owing to the Picasso magnetism the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, which commit feature some 250 works from the museum's mass and is due to originate at the end of April.
The unusually large canvas, measuring 6ft by 4ft (1.8m by 1.2m) and which depicts an acrobat mannered condemn an abstracted backdrop, was harmed on Friday.

Starbucks sees its profits triple

The US coffee chain giant made a net profit of $241.5m (£148m) in the three months to the end of December, compared with $64.3m a year earlier.

Buoyed by extensive cost-cutting work over the past year, the firm has also won back customers in its home market.

Same store US sales rose 4%, their first rise in more than two years.

Obama tells Senate not to 'jam' through healthcare plan

Mr Obama told ABC News any vote should wait until Scott Brown had taken up his seat, and lawmakers should seek to "coalesce" around parts they agreed on.

Mr Brown will be Massachusetts' first Republican senator since 1972.

His victory means the Republicans now have enough votes in the Senate to block the Democrats' healthcare plans.

The BBC's Paul Adams, in Boston, says it is a humiliating defeat for the Democrats, robbing them of their filibuster-proof 60-seat majority, and a deeply unwelcome anniversary present for President Obama exactly one year after his inauguration.

Manchester United debt hits £716m

Red Football Joint Venture is owned by the Glazer family and secures its debts against the football club.

The accounts, for the year to June 2009, show United's debts passing £700m for the first time.

They also confirm that six of Malcolm Glazer's children were each given loans worth £1.67m from the parent company.

All are directors of Red Football, and such a practice is legal.

However Keith Harris, the head of merchant bank Seymour Pierce who has been involved in four Premier League club takeovers, questioned whether it was sensible.

"You would not expect directors to be borrowing money at a company of United's size," he told the Guardian newspaper.

"And, although it is now allowed legally, it is generally still frowned upon because it does not create a good impression of the directors' governance of the company."

US to send 4,000 extra troops to Haiti

The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and USS Nassau Amphibious Ready Group would "significantly" increase the ability to quickly provide aid, the navy said.

The move will increase the number of US troops involved to about 16,000.

Earlier, a strong aftershock rocked the capital, Port-au-Prince, but did not seem to cause further casualties there.

Away from the city, survivors in some towns are still waiting for help after the original 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck eight days ago

Video game success may be in the mind, study finds

US researchers found they could predict how well an amateur player might perform on a game by measuring the volume of key sections of the brain.

Writing in the journal Cerebral Cortex, they suggest their findings could have wider implications for understanding the differences in learning rates.

There is broad acceptance of a link between brain size and intelligence.

However it remains a complicated picture. Within the animal kingdom some smaller brains appear superior to many larger ones: the monkey's compared with the horse, for instance, or the human and the elephant.

But there are certain parts of the brain which can be disproportionately larger, and this may explain some differences in cognitive ability - between individuals as well as species.

A multi-disciplinary team from the University of Illinois, the University of Pittsburgh and Massachusetts Institute of Technology recruited 39 adults - 10 men, 29 women - who had spent less than three hours each week playing video games in the previous two years.

They then had to play one of two versions of a specially developed game. One required them to focus exclusively on achieving a single goal, the other involved shifting priorities.

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Edlington attack 'could have been prevented'

The report from the Children's Safety Board, which represents the agencies involved, is to be published this week.
It identifies multiple failings by nine different agencies and says 31 chances to intervene were missed over 14 years.
Two brothers aged 10 and 11 at the time have admitted carrying out the brutal attack and will be sentenced this week.
The report, which was ordered after the attack on an 11-year-old and nine-year-old boy, is the latest serious case review centred around Doncaster, where seven children have died since 2004, despite being on the at risk register.

France joins Germany warning against Internet Explorer

Certa, a government agency that oversees cyber threats, warned against using all versions of the web browser.
Germany warned users on Friday after malicious code - implicated in attacks on Google - was published online.
But Microsoft told BBC News that IE8 was the "most secure browser on the market" and people should upgrade.
Cliff Evans, head of security and privacy, said that so far the firm had only seen malicious code that targeted the older version of its browser, IE6.
"The risk is minimal," he said.
For a web user to be affected, he said, they would have to be using IE6 and visit a compromised website.
"There are very few of them out there," he told BBC News.
However, if this did occur, a PC could become infected with a "trojan horse", allowing a hacker to take control of the computer and potentially steal sensitive information.

Pretty women 'anger more easily'

Researchers found women who rated themselves as pretty displayed a war-like streak when fighting battles to get their own way.
The University of California interviewed 156 female students to gauge their temperament and how they handled conflict.
The findings appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In the study, the women who believed they were good looking were more likely to respond angrily in disputes than those who rated themselves as less attractive.
Attractive women also had higher expectations of what they deserved.

German government warns against using MS Explorer

The warning from the Federal Office for Information Security comes after Microsoft admitted IE was the weak link in recent attacks on Google's systems.
Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users was low and that the browsers' increased security setting would prevent any serious risk.
However, German authorities say that even this would not make IE fully safe.
Thomas Baumgaertner, a spokesman for Microsoft in Germany, said that while they were aware of the warning, they did not agree with it, saying that the attacks on Google were by "highly motivated people with a very specific agenda".
"These were not attacks against general users or consumers," said Mr Baumgaertner.
"There is no threat to the general user, consequently we do not support this warning," he added.
Microsoft says the security hole can be shut by setting the browser's security zone to "high", although this limits functionality and blocks many websites.
However, Graham Cluley of anti-virus firm Sophos, told BBC News that not only did the warning apply to 6, 7 and 8 of the browser, but the instructions on how to exploit the flaw had been posted on the internet.
"This is a vulnerability that was announced in the last couple of days. Microsoft have no patch yet and the implication is that this is the same one that exploited on the attacks on Google earlier this week," he said.

Body scanners risk right to privacy, says UK watchdog

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said the devices risked breaching an individual's right to privacy under the Human Rights Act.
They are being introduced in response to the alleged attempt to blow up an American plane on 25 December.
Ministers have said protecting people's life and liberty is paramount.
The prime minister has pledged to introduce full body scanners at British airports, and they are due to be in operation at Heathrow Airport by the end of this month.
They produce "naked" images of passengers, and civil rights groups warn they could generate illegal images of children and images of celebrities that could be leaked online.
In response to such fears, the Department of Transport said it was developing a staff code of practice for airport body scanners.
In addition to body scanners, the government is also considering "additional targeted passenger profiling".
'Proportionate measures'
In its letter, the EHRC calls on Home Secretary Alan Johnson to set out in detail the justification for bringing in body scanners, and clarify what safeguards will be put in place.
The watchdog has said the proposals are likely to have a negative impact on privacy, especially in relation to certain groups such as disabled people, the elderly, children and the transgendered community.
It also wants to see the evidence for the profiling of air passengers.
John Wadham, group director legal at the EHRC, said the commission accepted the government had a responsibility to protect air travellers.

Fourth death sentence for 'Chemical Ali'

It is the fourth time that Majid, an enforcer in Saddam Hussein's regime, has been sentenced to death.
He has also been convicted of the killings of Shia Muslims in 1991 and 1999 and for his role in a campaign of genocide against Kurds in the 1980s.
His latest sentence is for a gas attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988.
It is believed that 5,000 people died in the attack, most of them women and children. Iraqi jets swooped over Halabja and for five hours sprayed it with a lethal cocktail of mustard gas and the nerve agents Tabun, Sarin and VX.
Majid was a cousin of Saddam Hussein, and earned his nickname after his use of poison gas.

Prince William in New Zealand on official visit

He was speaking in Auckland at the start of the three-day visit.
The prince toured the Eden Park rugby stadium, sailed around the harbour on an America's Cup yacht and helped cook a traditional Maori dinner.
The 27-year-old's main engagement takes place on Monday when he will open the Supreme Court building in Wellington.
The prince will also lay a wreath at Wellington's national war memorial.

Yahoo criticised by Alibaba for 'reckless' China stance

Yahoo said it was "aligned" with Google's position that the violation of internet privacy was deeply disturbing and something that had to be opposed.
But an Alibaba Group spokesman said on Saturday it did not "share this view".
Beijing has tried to play down Google's threat to pull out of China because of attacks by hackers and censorship.
In what correspondents say is an unusual move, the US state department said on Friday that it was to make a formal protest about the incident to China's government and demand an explanation.
'Business as usual'
Yahoo closed its offices in China several years ago when it sold much of its business there to the Alibaba Group, in which it has a 39% stake. It runs Taobao, China's largest online retailer, as well as the country's largest e-commerce site, Alibaba.com.

Massive quake flattens Haiti capital: Over 100,000 feared dead, says premier

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 13: More than 100,000 people were feared dead in Haiti on Wednesday after a calamitous earthquake razed homes, hotels and hospitals, leaving the capital in ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. Schools collapsed, trapping the dead inside, and cries of desperate victims escaped from flattened buildings in the centre of the capital Port-au-Prince, which an AFP correspondent said was “mostly destroyed”. With thousands of people missing, dazed survivors in torn clothes wandered through the rubble as more than 30 aftershocks rocked the ramshackle capital where more than two million people live, most in the grip of poverty. Some injured survivors wore makeshift slings and blood-soaked bandages. One woman was carried on a bit of debris used as a stretcher, past piles of smashed concrete, from which crushed bodies protruded.