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SINGAPORE, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Global temperature rises are set to exceed the key threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) “within a few years”, the UN’s environmental body said on Wednesday, creating more extreme weather and intensifying pressure on ecosystems, glaciers and low-lying coastal cities.  The United Nations Environment Programme said bringing temperature rises back to below 1.5C was “possible but highly uncertain,” and would require rapid emission […]

JAKARTA, Sept 2 (Reuters) – More than 500 students in Indonesia’s East Java were hospitalised with food poisoning suspected to have been caused by state-supplied meals, regional officials said on Wednesday, as the government works to reform the agency overseeing its ambitious free-meals scheme. President Prabowo Subianto launched his multibillion-dollar programme last year to eradicate under-nutrition by giving free meals to tens of millions of children, but the scheme has suffered from controversies […]

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona State hockey player and St. Louis Blues draft pick is still hospitalized nearly two weeks after collapsing during an offseason workout and an attorney representing his family is searching for answers. Defenseman Matthew Mayich is still incapacitated from an Aug. 20 on-campus workout and his condition is highly unlikely to change, according to attorney Rob Carey. “He is twenty-one years old,” Carey told The […]

VENICE, Italy (AP) — George Clooney and Danny Boyle are helping kick off the Venice Film Festival in style Wednesday on the Lido. Clooney, a festival mainstay, is receiving a lifetime achievement award, while Boyle is premiering “Ink,” his film about Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the British tabloid “The Sun” in 1969. Over the course of the next 11 days, the festival will see many stars from Hollywood and beyond […]

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 […]

SCARDOVARI, Italy (AP) — Italian fishermen for two years incinerated most of the invasive Atlantic blue crabs caught in the Po River Delta south of Venice. Few Italians had an appetite for the alien predator blamed for decimating their prized Manila clams. While experiments in containment continue, including the release of tens of thousands of octopus predators, the industry’s response has been shifting to find new markets for the crustaceans. […]

PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — There’s no getting around the fact that Thailand’s seaside resort of Pattaya has a lingering reputation for sex tourism, even though that’s only part of the story for the city that’s an expected shore leave destination of crew members aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Pattaya, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Bangkok, is where many of the 5,000 or so sailors and Marines in the […]

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial were set to resume deliberations Wednesday, a day after telling the judge they couldn’t agree on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three children. On Tuesday morning, the jury, then in its fourth day of deliberations, sent Judge William Sullivan a note saying it had been unable to reach a unanimous decision, which is required by law […]

Shabana Basij-Rasikh smiles as she points to the sign in the middle of campus: School of Leadership of Afghanistan, SOLA, a home in Rwanda. The sign, like the campus, is virtually brand new – with classes beginning for the first time later this month. It is a declaration, but also a symbol of the danger associated with educating Afghan girls – even thousands of miles from their homes. It’s not […]