ROME - ENVIRONMENTALISTS broke into power stations across Italy and shed their clothes in downtown Rome on Wednesday as world leaders discussed a new deal to combat global warming.
KABUL - FOURTEEN cases of H1N1 flu have been detected among US soldiers stationed at the biggest military base in Afghanistan, the government and the military said.
GENEVA - THE World Health Organisation said it would ask countries with large caseloads of swine flu to move away from laboratory testing of individual cases towards collecting more macro-trends of the disease.
LONDON - THE government is considering a scheme whereby students in England who live at home would pay no tuition fees but would receive no state loans or other financial support either, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
