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A CSIRO report has warned climate change will threaten the region's economy and security unless governments and aid agencies start preparing for its impacts.
The two-part CSIRO report was commissioned by a new coalition of aid, church and development groups.
It warns that a two degrees Celsius increase in temperature by 2030 will have a devastating impact in northern Pakistan, India and western China.
Smoking will be banned in all public places in France from next February.
Russian police have released security footage of the chief suspect in the murder of high-profile investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
There has been an outcry in Russia after a prominent journalist known for her coverage of the war in Chechnya was shot dead in Moscow.
Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis has declared victory in a parliamentary election after a second exit poll gave his centre-right coalition a commanding lead in the vote.
Thousands of people have gathered in the Polish capital, Warsaw, in rival demonstrations in support of the Government and against it.
Prominent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was an outspoken critic of the conflict in Chechnya, has been shot dead in Moscow.
The United States, following crunch talks in London, geared up for a week of tough negotiations with other world powers over a draft United Nations (UN) resolution to impose sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.
For the first time, the main Opposition Leader in Hungary, Viktor Orban, has joined a mass demonstration calling for the resignation of the Prime Minister, Ferenc Gyurcsany.
Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria.
The six world powers seeking to defuse the Iranian nuclear crisis have strengthened pressure on the Islamic state, agreeing to discuss sanctions and lamenting Iran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment.
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany has convincingly won a confidence motion in Parliament but a crowd of over 50,000 Opposition supporters gathered in front of the building to demand he quit.
Russia deported a planeload of Georgians accused of immigration offences, the latest retaliation by Moscow intended to bring its small southern neighbour to heel.
A German lawyer hopes to drum up more business by pursuing state compensation claims for people who believe they were abducted by aliens.
Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, standing firm before a confidence vote, told Parliament he would not bow to opposition "blackmail" and vowed to stick to his tough economic program.
The United States and Europe reached a last-minute deal on new rules governing the supply of personal data on transatlantic air passengers to US law enforcement agencies as part of the fight against terrorism.
Scientists have found a fossil of a "monster" fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway.
Russian authorities plan to ban Georgian nationals from entering Russia as migrant workers, officials said, accusing such migrants of being responsible for a high number of crimes.
Belgian police have arrested an Iranian who said he was involved in a plot to bomb a passenger plane in Belgium.
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