Financial Times

This year will be another record-breaking year for venture capital investment in "clean" technologies, according to a new analysis of the market. By Fiona Harvey

More than 1m people have been hit by some of the worst floods in Africa in a generation, fuelling concerns over the continent's exposure to extreme weather events linked to climate change. By Matthew Green and Fiona Harvey

The US government is on a "burning platform" of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country's top government inspector has warned.

Canada raised the stakes in the battle to claim ownership of the Arctic by sending Stephen Harper, prime minister, on a three-day trek to the region, just days after the Russians planted a flag on the seabed at the North Pole. By Daina Lawrence and Daniel Dombey

A popular backlash against globalisation and the leaders of the world's largest companies is sweeping all rich countries, an FT/Harris poll shows. By Chris Giles

A massive granite monument at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey commemorates the 86,692 Ottoman soldiers who died fighting the Allies during the first world war. By Vincent Boland

When a group of analysts and economists at Garanti Securities in Turkey recently gathered for a regular meeting, talk turned to the country's looming general election. By Vincent Boland

The rainfall pattern in the ensuing south-west monsoon season is likely to mark a shift, with concentration on the western coast. By Ashok B Sharma

Climate change threatens to prolong the war on terrorism and foster political instability that some governments will be unable to cope with, an influential panel of 11 retired US generals has warned.

A series of concerts "bigger than Live Aid" is being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before an audience of a global audience of 2bn. By Carlos Grande and Fiona Harvey

After years of growing prosperity, we now face having to curb our consumption. It is sad to think that the era of cheap air travel, having been with us so briefly, is already drawing to a close. von Richard Tomkins

Scientists at Nasa, instead of staring into the skies, have been using satellites to look down at the world and track how it is changing. Within a year, the US space agency disclosed this week, an area of sea ice "the size of Texas" had been lost from the Arctic. By Fiona Harvey,

Most American troops in Iraq believe that the US should withdraw within the next year, according to the first poll of US military personnel in Iraq. By Demetri Sevastopulo and Edward Alden

The US government has plans to build a high-security prison in Afghanistan to hold terror suspects, including some who would be transferred from the controversial US naval base at Guantánamo Bay. By Jimmy Burns and Rachel Morarjee

Consumers are spending more than £3bn a year to help tackle climate change. By Fiona Harvey

Global warming could reduce harvests and plant growth, with a serious effect on farm productivity, scientists will warn on Thursday. By Fiona Harvey

The negotiations on the draft declaration for the World Summit - which opens on Tuesday - have been nothing short of bizarre. By Jeffrey Sachs

The US is increasingly viewed as a "culture-free zone" inhabited by arrogant and unfriendly people, according to study of 25 countries' brand reputations. By Kevin Allison

President George W. Bush will on Wednesday throw his support behind a worldwide expansion of nuclear power and announce plans for a new generation of oil refineries and natural gas terminals in the US. By Andrew Ward

Müslüman çoğunluğa ve gelişen bir ekonomiye sahip demokratik ve laik bir cumhuriyet olan Türkiye'yi kucaklamak, AB'nin en büyük başarılarından biri olacaktır

Jacques Chirac, France's president, was fiercely criticised by his own supporters on Thursday after he reiterated his strong support for Turkey's entry to the European Union.

Turkey vowed on Thursday to resolve its long-running feud with Cyprus, in a gesture of goodwill ahead of a historic decision in Brussels over its European Union destiny.

Son yıllarda birçok Avrupalı lider gözünü, kaçınamayacakları bir gelecekten ziyade, tekrar yaratabileceklerini sandıkları maziye çevirdi. Philip Stephens

In three weeks' time, European Union leaders must make up their minds whether Turkey can be admitted to accession negotiations that in 10 to 15 years should make it a member of their club.

The transitional political process, designed to lead to constituent assembly and general elections next year, has been undermined because the nervous US-dominated occupation authority has insisted on hand-picking various permutations of interim Iraqi governors, mostly exiles or expatriates with no s

Yaklaşık 18 ay önce, ABD önderliğindeki Irak işgalinin başlamasından bu yana bin Amerikan askeri öldü. Askerlerin büyük bir çoğunluğu, Başkan George W.

The European Union should have a "plan B", as an alternative to opening membership talks with Turkey because of doubts about the country's democratic reforms and religious identity, a senior European Commissioner has said.

President George Bush's foreign policy team came into office intent on toppling Mr Aristide, long reviled by powerful US conservatives such as former senator Jesse Helms who obsessively saw him as another Fidel Castro in the Caribbean.

The US-led provisional authority in Iraq may be breaking international law by selling state assets, experts have warned, raising the prospect that contracts signed now by foreign investors could be scrapped by a future Iraqi government.

"ABD, Türk birliklerinin Kuzey Irak'ta operasyonlara devam etmelerini engellemeli. Türkiye'nin angajmanı, zaten kırılgan durumda olan bölgeyi istikrarsızlaştırıyor." Andrzey Rybak ve Hendrik Kafsack'ın yazısı.