Climate row scientist says he considered suicide
The UK scientist at the center of a controversy surrounding e-mails leaked from a leading UK climate research unit has admitted the strain of the affair led him to consider suicide.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday delivered the annual speech to mark the state opening of Parliament, highlighting climate change and strengthening financial regulation as the government’s main priorities.
Nigeria’s political landscape was shrouded in mystery Thursday as its ailing President, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, returned to the country after months abroad receiving medical treatment.
Twenty-eight suspected pirates were taken into custody Friday by the European Union Naval Force after a handful of failed attacks on fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean, the EU mission said.
An unknown World War I soldier is buried in Fromelles, France, the first of 250 bodies recovered from a string of mass graves dating back to a bloody battle that claimed thousands of lives in a single night.
Investigators probing the June crash of an Air France flight off Brazil will release their second interim report Thursday with a press briefing, officials said.
Golf legend Gary Player has told CNN that 20-year-old Rory McIlroy “has the world at his feet” after the Northern Ireland ace claimed his seventh top-10 finish from eight stroke play events with a third-place finish in Abu Dhabi.
Both sides in a pilots strike against Lufthansa agree to suspend the standoff — which has canceled hundreds of flights — at midnight (6 p.m. Monday ET).
Kenyan wildlife officials are ferrying thousands of zebras and wildebeest to a park in the country’s south to feed starving lions and hyenas, and prevent a conflict with humans.
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Former British hostage Peter Moore, freed this week after two-and-a-half years in Iraq, arrived in Britain on Friday, the British Foreign Office said.
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British National Party leader Nicholas Griffin denied in an appearance on a popular BBC television program that he is a Nazi. Griffin’s appearance came after about 500 demonstrators and police engaged in some shoving outside the gates of BBC Television Centre as he arrived for the show.
A French court on Tuesday convicted the Church of Scientology and six of its members of organized fraud, but stopped short of banning the church.
Two ethnic Uyghur brothers from China will be released from Guantanamo prison and transferred to Switzerland to live, according to the Uyghur American Association.
Some former members of the Irish Republican Army — “small in number” but “ruthless” — are trying to undermine the agreement that ended 30 years of deadly violence in Northern Ireland, a former deputy director of the CIA said.
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