Global warming could elevate disease, ravage crops and push 100 million more people into poverty without action to prevent it, the World Bank has warned in a disturbing new report.
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LONDON - Messages of support have poured in for a British rugby league journalist who is fighting for his life after he was found in the street with head injuries.
DUBAI - A second extremely rare and powerful cyclone in two weeks has battered the Yemeni island of Socotra with hurricane-force winds, killing a woman and causing around 5000 people to flee their homes, a local official says.
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth has led millions of Britons as they fell silent to honour members of the Commonwealth's armed forces killed in conflict at the annual Remembrance Sunday service.
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SAINT PETERSBURG - Saint Petersburg has remembered the victims of the Sinai plane crash, with the bell of the iconic St. Isaac's Cathedral tolling 224 times in memory of each person killed.
ISTANBUL - A Turkish man detained as a suspected would-be suicide bomber in northern Turkey was actually wearing a burqa to disguise himself to meet a secret lover from a dating site.
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple has defeated a class action lawsuit from its California store employees seeking back pay for the time taken to undergo checks of their bags when leaving for the day.
