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Some of Britain's biggest hedge funds have warned the UK Treasury they will be forced to leave the country unless a draft European directive is radically changed

Gordon Brown is locked in a battle of wills with his two most senior ministers over a cabinet reshuffle and could face a backbench revolt if local and European elections are as disastrous as expected for the Labour party

Clean technologies attract $140bn compared with $110bn for gas, coal and electrical powerGreen energy overtook fossil fuels in attracting investment for power generation for the first time last year, according to figures released today by the United Nations.Wind, solar and other clean technologies attracted $140bn (£85bn) compared with $110bn for gas and coal for electrical power generation, with more than a third of the green cash destined for Britain and the rest of Europe.The biggest growth for renewable investment came from China, India and other developing countries, which are fast catching up on the West in switching out of fossil fuels to improve energy security and tackle climate change.'There have been many milestones reached in recent years, but this report suggests renewable energy has now reached a tipping point where it is as important - if not more important - in the global energy mix than fossil fuels,' said Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN's Environment Progr

As countries in the southern hemisphere brace for their winter flu season, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today that they are closer to declaring H1N1 a global pandemic. [More]

Obama administration admits mistake, but denies release of information threatens national securityAn exhaustive list of America's nuclear sites - including maps showing the location of fuel for nuclear weapons - has been accidentally posted on a government website, but the Obama administration denied that the leak had jeopardised national security.The 266-page document, marked 'highly confidential', was removed from the website of the Government Printing Officelast night following media inquiries.Barack Obama had ordered the report for the International Atomic Energy Agency in the hopes of prodding other countries, such as Iran, to submit similar classified information nuclear activities to the agency.In his accompanying letter to Congress, Obama described the information as 'sensitive but unclassified'. Nearly every page is stamped 'highly confidential safeguards sensitive'.'The enclosed draft declaration lists each site, location, facility, and activity I intend to declare to the IA

Two elderly Israeli men were arrested by British police Tuesday night for attempting to smuggle 12.5 tons of marijuana into the country, the Sun reported on Wednesday.Moshe Kedar 81, and his younger a...

Copenhagen: A new anti-smoking campaign film from European Commission, help-eu.com, is accused of leaving viewers with the feeling that it is better for a girl to smoke than go kissing other girls.

Global warming is a lie, homosexuality is a 'pathology' and Europe is becoming a 'neo-totalitarian' regime, according to one of David Cameron's new European allies.Tory headquarters may never have heard of Urszula Krupa, a militant Roman Catholic and strong Polish nationalist, but at the weekend in Warsaw, Cameron sealed his new alliance in Europe with Krupa's rightwing party in Poland, the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS) run by twin brothers Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczy´nski.Cameron went to the city's Palladium cinema to stand alongside Jaroslaw Kaczy´nski, the PiS leader, and Mirek Topolánek, leader of the Civic Democratic party (ODS) in the Czech Republic, to celebrate the foundation of a new league of Eurosceptics to be established in the European parliament after elections for the assembly this weekend.The Tory leader waxed lyrical about the Battle of Britain and how Czech and Polish pilots did their bit in the blitz with the RAF.'Together we fought for freedom,' Cameron said.'W

NEW DELHI, Jun 3 (IPS) - India's list of top women politicians grew Wednesday after the country's Parliament elected Meira Kumar as the speaker of its powerful lower house.