KUALA LUMPUR - HALF the world's population could face a shortage of clean water by 2080 because of climate change, experts warned on Tuesday.

Wong Poh Poh, a professor at the National University of Singapore, told a regional conference that global warming was disrupting water flow patterns and increasing the severity of floods, droughts and storms - all of which reduce the availability of drinking water.

CANBERRA - AUSTRALIA'S kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China, Australian researchers said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON - A STONE-AGE burial in central Germany has yielded the earliest evidence of people living together as a family.

The 4,600-year-old grave contained the remains of a man, woman and two youngsters, and DNA analysis shows they were a mother, father and their children.