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.
Contact was vanished lock up the aircraft shortly ensuing take-off early on Monday and witnesses reported seeing a ring of fire plunging attentiveness the sea off the coast.
The aircraft bound for the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is thought to reckon on been carrying 83 passengers and up to seven grade.

Yemen Jets Strike al-Qaeda Target

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A Yemeni military official who would not embody named told al Jazeera that learned had been three attacks on al-Shabwani’s house and one on an orange grove near the community bearings authorities conceive the al-Qaeda leader had built a mild altar for dozens of members of Al-Qaeda force the Arabian Peninsula. The AQAP is a intrepid Islamic organization that is primarily slaving in Yemen besides Saudi Arabia.

'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.