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The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich coun ...

AP - Michael Jackson and Mother Teresa. Stephen Hawking and the Dalai Lama. And now Shakira.

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Desperate Housewives 9 p.m., Channel 5 A small plane crashes on Wisteria Lane, no doubt leading to a cliffhanger about who will survive. Also, Susan has a plan to help Katherine (Dana Delany, above left, with Eva Longoria Parker).

Avenue, a sexy new lounge in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, seems to signal a new era for a certain scene: the days of showy indulgence are waning.

URUMQI: Five people were sentenced Thursday to death for murder and other crimes committed in the July 5 riot in Urumqi, capital of west China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The defendants were Memeteli Islam, Mamattursun Elmu, Memeteli Abburakm, Kushiman Kurban and Helil Sadir. Two others were sentenced at the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi to life imprisonment and another six were given jail terms. Memeteli Islam was convicted of battering to death police officer Wan Jing ...

Gen. Stanley McChrystal said that the Afghan government and its international partners should use the coming 18 months to convince the Taliban they can't win and offer militants a way to quit the insurgency "with dignity." McChrystal made the call after President Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more troops to the war.

Brazil registered a trade surplus of 615 million U.S. dollars in November, down 51.4 percent from October, the country's Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Ministry said in a report on Tuesday. The figure represents a 62.4-percent year-on-year drop and is the worst registered result since January, the ministry said. The modest figures registered in the past months could be attributed to the increase in the Brazilian imports, which was due to several factors, including the re ...

Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon publicly backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday in Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. Speaking at a press conference at the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the two leaders committed to two conferences on Afghanistan -- one in London in January and the other in Kabul, for which no date was given. "The United Nations is looking forward to w ...

Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a European Eutelsat W-7 satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan Tuesday, a Khrunichev Aerospace Center spokesman said. The carrier rocket blasted off at 05:19 p.m. Moscow time (1419 GMT), spokesman Alexander Bobrenev was quoted as saying by Itar-Tass news agency. Approximately nine hours and 12 minutes later, the W-7 telecommunications satellite of the French company Eutelsat will separate from the booster and be a ...

Five police officers will stand trial at a northwest China court Tuesday for the death of a 19-year-old student in custody in March, local authorities said. The five suspects were all officials of the Public Security Department in Danfeng County of Shaanxi Province, including former department head Yan Yaofeng, anti-graft official Wang Qingbao, police chief Zhao Shuo and police officers Jia Yangang and Li Hongwei, the People's Court of Shangnan County said on its website. The cou ...

MIAMI (AP) -- Dwyane Wade had 31 points, and Udonis Haslem hit a jumper with 15.4 seconds left to lift the Miami Heat past the New Orleans Hornets 102-101 on Sunday night.

The problem for Lewis on her follow-up album is that while this is the exact point at which she should be marking out her own territory, Echo feels and sounds even more a part of the X Factory than her debut album.

Senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Zhou Yongkang has said that China is willing to enhance cooperation with South Africa in various fields in a bid to lift bilateral ties to a new height, according to sources with the International Department of CPC Central Committee on Thursday. Zhou, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, made the remarks while meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday in Pretoria. ...

Of the 89 documentary films eligible for Oscar consideration this year, 15 were selected for a short list of potential nominees. And Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" wasn't one of them.

The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Philippine Stock Exchange are separately evaluating whether the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co./Metro Pacific Investments Corp. group should be required to make a tender offer to other shareholders of Manila Electric Co.

Timothy Geithner and other senior officials had a two-hour round table with financial writers this month.

Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang met here Monday afternoon with Juergen Ruettgers, premier of Nordrhein-Westfalen of Germany who led a delegation visiting China. Zhang expressed appreciation on Ruettgers's efforts to strengthen bilateral economic and trade cooperation. He briefed the guests on the measures that the Chinese government has taken to counter the international financial crisis as well as China's current social and economic development. He pointed out that th ...

As democracy slips in country after country, France often quietly sides with the once-and-future autocrats.

The mystery surrounding bluesman Robert Johnson's life and death feeds the lingering fascination with his work.