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Madrid - Police in Spain said on Wednesday they had smashed a drug trafficking ring which used senior citizens as drug mules on luxury transatlantic cruises to smuggle cocaine into the country. "Th...

Spanish police busted a drug trafficking ring Wednesday that had been using senior citizens as drug mules to smuggle highly pure cocaine from South America into the country, the AFP reported.

New satellite images from the European Space Agency show massive amounts of ice are breaking away from an ice shelf on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers said Wednesday.

(New York) - The announcement by the United Arab Emirates that the Abu Dhabi Judicial Department will conduct an expeditious and "comprehensive review" of   the videotaped torture of an Afghan grain dealer, apparently by a royal family member and the police, is a positive first step in restoring public confidence in the country's criminal justice system, Human Rights Watch said today. read more

A rare subspecies of the Asian black bear may soon disappear from its native Iran, according to reports from the country's Mehr News Agency. [More]

Oslo - Interest in the Arctic region has increased as the melting of the Arctic polar cap continues, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said Wednesday in summing up Norway's chairmanship of the eight-country Arctic Council. The melting sea i...

About 30 detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared for release, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday as he tried to persuade European allies to take some of them.

The European carbon trading system is a 'failure' and will not help the UK to meet its emission reduction targets, electricity generator EDF warns a committee of UK MPsThe EU carbon trading system has failed and will not help meet government targets on decarbonising the power sector, energy operators told MPs yesterday.Electricity generator EDF warned an environmental audit committee inquiry into carbon markets that government targets to cut the UK's greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050 would not be met without certainty that the price of carbon could be raised and sustained. The government's Committee on Climate Change has said that the target would require 'almost full decarbonisation' of the power industry by 2030.Asked by MPs on the committee whether the European Emissions Trading scheme was insufficient to meet these targets, Humphrey Cadoux-Hudson, managing director of new nuclear build at EDF, agreed. 'As currently framed today that is the case. What is needed are rules that wil

A federal appeals court yesterday reinstated a lawsuit by five former detainees who sued a Boeing subsidiary over its alleged role in transporting them to foreign countries, where they say they suffered brutal interrogation under the CIA's 'black site' prison system.

In many remote areas of the country where wind is plentiful, no power is harnessed from the land because there aren't enough transmission lines to carry the electricity. And though the Plains offer untapped electrical potential, grid managers worry that the erratic nature of wind could make the grid unreliable.