WASHINGTON - THE Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper announced on Monday that it will publish its final print edition on Tuesday and go online only.

The P-I, as the daily is known, reported on its website Seattlepi.com that its publisher had decided to shut down the print operation of the money-losing newspaper.

GENEVA - POLICE say they have seized an unloaded assault rifle from a 17-year-old student at a high school.

The student brought the weapon to school in a tennis bag on Monday. They said no ammunition was found.

OSLO - US President Barack Obama should seek an alliance with China and Europe to tax greenhouse gas emissions and abandon his plans for carbon trading, a leading US scientist said on Monday.

James Hansen, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said the UN's Kyoto Protocol had exposed flaws in a cap-and-trade plan favoured by Mr Obama for fighting climate change.