WESTMINSTER - Ministers should go ahead with the idea of PERSONAL "CARBON CREDITS" to meet emissions targets, MPs have said. The Environmental Audit Committee said the scheme would be more effective than taxes for cutting carbon emissions.
USA - A mission to discover the wreck of the Titanic was actually a cover-story for examining the remains of two Cold War nuclear submarines, the man who located the liner has revealed.
COTTBUS, GERMANY - Few politicians in Germany have quite as much momentum these days as Oskar Lafontaine and the populist leader of the rising Left party is making the most of it.
LUIS EDUARDO MAGALHAES, BRAZIL - Leaving the U.S. Midwest, they find affordable land and a productive climate on a "new frontier"
LONDON - Oil prices at a record high above $135 a barrel are rising due to market sentiment rather than a shortage of supply, Royal Dutch Shell's chief executive said on Thursday.
DUBLIN - In an interview with EUobserver, Irish EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy notes that there is a lack of "energy" among Irish voters in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.
BRUSSELS - The FT reports that in a secret meeting, MEPs have blocked moves to force them to account for how they spend their expenses.
DHARAMSALA, INDIA - A restless young generation of Tibetans is warning that a failure to achieve Tibet's independence is creating a deep well of frustration, offering space for more radical groups in coming years.
USA - Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and proposed in the name of national security have generated much debate.
JUPITER - For about 300 years Jupiter's banded atmosphere has shown a remarkable feature to telescopic viewers, a large swirling storm system known as The Great Red Spot.
SANTIAGO - Heavy rains and flooding that killed five people and displaced thousands in south-central Chile have collapsed road and rail bridges, closed the world's largest underground copper mine and left many in the capital without drinking water, the government said on Friday.
UK - The fortune-tellers, at least, must have seen it coming. The biggest overhaul of consumer laws for 40 years takes effect on Monday, tightening controls on everything from door-to-door salesmen to children's advertising.
MISSOURI, USA - A car dealership in the United States is offering a free handgun with every vehicle sold. Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, says sales have quadrupled since the start of the offer.
UK - Record number of patients are dying in hospitals and nursing homes after contracting superbugs, MRSA and Clostridium difficile, new figures show.
CHINA - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Beijing as he continues his first official foreign tour.