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Almanya'nın Rostock kentinde G-8 zirvesini protesto etmek amacıyla düzenlenen gösteriler sırasında meydana gelen olaylarda 433 polisin yaralandığı bildirildi.

China has one of the highest rates of female suicide in the world. And the problem is most acute in poor rural areas. By Daniel Griffiths

Investors are urging greater clarity from key industrialised nations on policies addressing climate change.

İngiltere'de bilimadamlarının oluşturduğu sendikası bugün toplandı ve delegeler oybirliğiyle hükümetin çağrısına hayır demeyi kararlaştırdı.

The US appears to have rejected draft proposals by Germany for G8 members to agree tough measures in greenhouse gas emissions, leaked documents have shown.

The BBC News website is publishing a series of articles about the attempts to achieve peace in the Middle East and the main obstacles. Martin Asser looks at the central issue of water.

Japonya Başbakanı Şinzo Abe, dünyanın atmosfere karışan zehirli gaz miktarını 2050 yılına kadar yarı yarıya azaltması gerekeceğini söyledi.

Scientists have reported worrying signs that the vast ice sheet over Greenland is melting. If the whole mass of ice disappeared, the world's sea level would rise by about six metres (20ft). David Shukman meets the Nasa team who study the effects of climate change on the ground. By David Shukman

Female hammerhead sharks can reproduce without having sex, scientists confirm.

Pakistani UN peacekeeping troops have traded in gold and sold weapons to Congolese militia groups they were meant to disarm, the BBC has learnt. By Martin Plaut

Iraqi children are getting caught up in a growing humanitarian tragedy as violence continues in the country, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) has warned.

Türklerin yoğun olarak yaşadığı Kreuzberg ilçesindeki Wrangel mahallesi, kış aylarında gençlerle polis arasındaki kavga yüzünden gazete başlıklarına taşınmıştı, şimdi McDonald's yüzünden gündemde. Fulya Canşen

One of Earth's most important absorbers of carbon dioxide (CO2) is failing to soak up as much of the greenhouse gas as it was expected to, scientists say. By Paul Rincon

An extraordinarily diverse array of marine life has been discovered in the deep, dark waters around Antarctica. By Rebecca Morelle

Award-winning film-maker Michael Moore is being investigated by US authorities for a possible violation of the trade embargo against Cuba, he has announced.

don't get too many assignments like this one. Imagine the scene. There I am: polo shirt, shorts and sunglasses, lying on a white sandy beach, the sea gently lapping at my toes, the strains of Latino music dancing their way through the air, and the sun beating down through a cloudless sky.

Londra, bugün göçmenlerin sömürülmesinin önlenmesi çağrıları içeren bir gösteriye ev sahipliği yapacak.

The growth in greenhouse gas emissions can be curbed at reasonable cost, experts at a major UN climate change conference in Bangkok have agreed.

The Australian of the year 2007, environmentalist Tim Flannery, once predicted that Perth in Western Australia could become the world's first ghost metropolis, its population forced to abandon the city due to lack of water. By Maggie Ayre

A climate change conference in Bangkok is wrangling over a report which will propose measures to reduce emissions of the gases thought to be warming the world. By Andrew Walker

How do you bring peace and prosperity to Iraq? By Ian Pannell

Senior US State Department official Nicholas Burns is to go to India later this month to try to finalise a landmark nuclear fuel treaty.

The number of terror suspects being monitored by MI5 in the UK has grown by a quarter in the past six months, the BBC has learned. By Frank Gardner

Tayland'ın başkenti Bangkok, ekonomik büyümeyi tehlikeye atmaksızın küresel ısınmayla nasıl mücadele edilmesi gerektiği hakkında görüşlerin paylaşılacağı bir uluslararası konferansa ev sahipliği yapıyor.

ABD'deki bir federal soruşturmanın bulgularına göre, Irak'ta, ABD yönetimi tarafından büyük başarı olarak ilan edilen sekiz yeniden inşa projesinden yedisi aslında başarısız.

Venezuela is to take control of the massive Orinoco Belt oil projects as part of President Hugo Chavez's nationalisation drive.

Thousands of miners in Peru have begun a nationwide strike over wages, benefits and labour rights.

The giant Galapagos tortoise that became a conservation icon when it appeared he was the last of his kind is not so alone after all. By Paul Rincon

The government of Thailand, which came to power after a military coup last September, is to hire a public relations firm to improve its image.

Climate change experts are meeting in Bangkok for a major conference to discuss ways to combat global warming.