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Researchers from MIT criticized the United Nations' global climate report, saying it seriously underestimated the speed of Arctic sea ice loss.

Researchers from MIT attacked the United Nations' recent global climate report and said that the U.N. underestimated the severity of Arctic sea ice melting. MIT's research team said that the thinning is probably happened four times more quickly than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted.

The United Nations' most recent global climate report "fails to capture trends in Arctic sea-ice thinning and drift, and in some cases substantially underestimates these trends," says a new research from MIT.

Pesticides of toxic concentrations have been detected 38 miles inside the reef.

Portugal still faces some tough challenges but is on track to meet this year's budget deficit goal despite a shortfall in performance so far, officials from the European Union and IMF said on Friday.

Syrian forces killed at least 19 people in raids near the Lebanon border and in the country's Sunni tribal heartland, activists said, pursuing a military campaign to crush street protests against President Bashar al-Assad.

Israel's interior minister has given final approval for a plan to build 1,600 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a project whose announcement last year during a visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden caused a diplomatic rift with Washington.

Secret exploratory peace talks between the United States and the Taliban have reportedly crumbled after details of the negotiations were leaked.

The Tanzanian government said it is committed to wiping out sexual abuse and rape of children.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry warns against travel to the UK during the riots as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls on the U.N. Security Council to investigate "savage aggression" by police.

"Cameron and his government must leave after the popular uprising against them and the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations by police," Libya's state news agency Jana quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaaim as saying.

China Mainly Blames US and India For 500,000 Cyberattacks Last Year

Zombies -- trendier than yesterday's vampires -- will hit the big screen on the first day of winter 2012, as Paramount releases "World War Z" on December 21 of next year, the studio announced Tuesday.

U.S. firm, AgriSol Energy LLC, and its joint venture partner in Tanzania will invest more than $100 million over the next 10 years to develop a large-scale commercial farming project in the east African country, a company director said on Tuesday.

The United Nations has designated August 9, International Day of the World's Indigenous People.

A global bunch of musicians and tech giants have come up to set off a campaign ?I?m Gonna Be Your Friend", to help Save the Children fight the famine in East Africa.

Hours after the Arab League condemned the Syrian regime's violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, Saudi Arabia said it was recalling its ambassador to Damascus and denounced the Syrian ?death machine? in harsh language.

Activists said the death toll in protests across Syria a day earlier, when tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on the first Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, had risen to 26.

Ryan White, a 9-year-old tourist from Yardley, Philadelphia, who became the victim of a hit-and-run incident in downtown San Francisco after watching a baseball game, was battling for his life on Friday night at San Francisco General Hospital.

Kaspersky and Symantec say Shady RAT isn't as big of a deal as McAfee made it out to be.

Reportedly, Mubashir?s wife, Musarrat, who witnessed the murders, had called the police.