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Humans were influencing the climate long before the Industrial Revolution, new research suggests. By Helen Briggs

Birleşmiş Milletler Genel Sekreteri Kofi Annan, bu ayın ortasında, dünya liderlerinin biraraya geleceği, Birleşmiş Milletler'in 60'ıncı yıldönümü kutlamalarına ev sahipliği yapmaya hazırlanıyor.

An extra 1.1 million Americans dropped below the poverty line last year, according to the US Census Bureau.

Americans are getting fatter at a rate never seen before, a report shows.

With fires raging through southern Europe - a region experiencing its worst drought for decades - and some parts of the continent submerged by floods, it is tempting to ascribe such extreme weather to the effects of global warming.

Floods have brought chaos to a large swathe of central Switzerland, triggering landslides and cutting roads and railway lines.

Urgent appeals from Portugal for help to battle wildfires raging across the country have prompted fellow EU states to dispatch fire-fighting aircraft.

High temperatures and dry weather are hampering efforts to extinguish a host of wildfires across Portugal.

Searing heat and drought are affecting large swathes of southern Europe and North Africa.

Higher UK temperatures are causing soils to "exhale" large quantities of carbon dioxide, probably accelerating global warming, scientists report. By Jonathan Amos

The invasion of Iraq put an end to decades of repression under Saddam Hussein, but it also took a physical toll on the country, with hundreds of thousands killed or wounded. The war has also caused other wounds that are harder to detect, experts say.

Temperatures on the ground did not match those in the air A dispute over the data for global warming may be down to the way sensors were placed on weather balloons when readings were taken in the 1970s.

A new report from the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns that temperatures in Europe's major cities are rising. By Imogen Foulkes

The US military has just concluded a major training operation in the Sahel region south of the Sahara desert, which it describes as its biggest exercise in Africa since World War Two. By Catherine Fellows

For the past 20 years climatologists and ice and atmosphere scientists have been working in Alaska studying climate change. By Kate Bissell

The chief US negotiator on North Korea's nuclear programme has held a rare meeting with his North Korean counterpart ahead of key nuclear talks.

A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say. By Jonathan Amos

Parts of the brain are temporarily "switched off" when we blink, scientists have found.

Decades of British and American intervention in the oil-rich Middle East motivated the London bombers, Ken Livingstone has suggested.

Nearly 25,000 civilians have died violently in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, a report says.

İngiltere'nin başkenti Londra'da bu sabah arka arkaya meydana gelen patlamalarda en az 38 kişi öldü; 150'si ağır 700'den fazla kişi de yaralandı.

Human settlers made it to the Americas 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to new evidence. By Paul Rincon

President George W Bush has ruled out US backing for any Kyoto-style deal on climate change at the G8 summit.

The European Commission says talks on Turkey's membership of the EU should start on time on 3 October with accession as a "shared objective".

Dünyanın en zengin ülkelerinden oluşan G-8 grubunun gelecek ayın başında İskoçya'da yapacağı toplantı öncesi yoksullukla mücadele tartışmaları hararetlendi.

Ceremonies across Australia have marked National Sorry Day, which remembers the government's removal of Aboriginal children from their families.

The ice sheet covering the interior of Antarctica is thickening, researchers report in the journal Science.

If we continue with current rates of species extinction, we will have no chance of rolling back poverty and the lives of all humans will be diminished. By Jonathan Amos

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South Korean scientists say they have made stem cells tailored to match the individual for the first time.