LISBON - A TEAM of Portuguese climbers will next month begin a three-year expedition over five glaciers around the world to show the effects of global warming, the head of the project told AFP Monday.
FROMELLES (France) - FORENSIC experts gathered on Monday in a muddy field in northern France ahead of a solemn operation to exhume hundreds of fallen Australian and British soldiers from a World War I mass grave.
BRUSSELS - A SENIOR European Union official called on President Barack Obama to give up United States' oversight of the Internet.
Major decisions on how the Internet is run are made solely by the California-based nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - which is overseen by the US Commerce Department under an agreement that expires September 30.
STRASBOURG (France) - THE body in charge of assigning Internet addresses such as .com and .net should be shorn of its US government links from October and made fully independent, the European Union's information society chief said on Monday.
