CLIMATE CHANGE

Countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow global warming.

United Nations Climate Change Conference participants agreed on a pact Sunday that for the first time would force all the biggest polluters to take action to slow the pace of global changing.

Ministers fought to save U.N. climate talks from collapse on Saturday, searching to narrow differences between rich and poor nations over how quickly to fight global warming.

This isn't the first time a polar bear was observed eating juvenile bears, there have been numerous related incidents in the recent past. In late 2009, cannibalism among ploar bears was witnessed on the shores of Hudson Bay, near the Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba.

Support grew on Thursday for an EU plan to agree a global climate change pact with binding targets by 2015, after poor nations vulnerable to climate change forged alliances with developed countries.

The world's three biggest polluters China, the United States and India refused to move toward a new legal commitment to curb their carbon emissions Tuesday, increasing the risk that climate talks will fail to clinch a meaningful deal this week.

Radio talk-show host Glenn Beck grilled Newt Gingrich, the Republican presidential frontrunner, during a lengthy interview.

Newt Gingrich has been attacked by multiple pro-gun groups for supposedly supporting gun control legislation.

President Barack Obama and three 2012 Republican presidential hopefuls are all contenders for the award.

Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels reached 10 billion tonnes in 2010, the first time such an amount has ever been reached, according to an editorial Sunday.

Carbon dioxide emissions, from the burning of fossil fuels and production of cement, registered record increases last year, according to researchers with the Global Carbon Project, who reported a 5.9 percent increase.

The title of Miss Earth 2011 has been handed to Miss Ecuador, Olga Alava.

China said it was deeply concerned about a preliminary ruling by a U.S. trade body that trade practices by Chinese solar makers are hurting U.S. producers and said the decision underscored a U.S. inclination to trade protectionism.

Efforts to have bamboo technology in Africa.

A new ad from the Ron Paul campaign points out Gingrich's plentiful inconsistencies.

At stake is the possible dissolution of the Kyoto Accord, whose commitment period expires in 2012. Japan and Russia announced last year in Cancun they are against any extension or renewal of the accord if big green house gas emitters like the United States and China are excluded.

Canada dismissed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change on Monday as a thing of the past, but declined to confirm a media report it will formally pull out of the international treaty before the end of this year.

The world needs a far more ambitious plan to cut emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases than the Kyoto Protocol, European Union climate negotiators said on Monday, calling for a global deal to be reached by 2015 and in place by 2020.

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) has begun in Durban, South Africa, where about 10,000 officials from 194 countries will meet in a bid to arrive at a new climate change deal.

Newt Gingrich got praise from an unexpected source on Sunday: former President Bill Clinton, who spent much of the 1990s at loggerheads with a Gingrich-led Congress. Clinton pointed to two unconventional positions the latest Republican front-runner took at a national security debate last week and said that independent voters were hungry for ideas that make some sense.

The comments come ahead of a United Nations climate treaty conference in Durban, South Africa next week.