**** UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called the melting Antarctic ice caps an "emergency situation" and urged world leaders to act swiftly in the fight against global warming.
**** Police probed 100 offices across Israel to determine whether Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert bartered public permits for a discounted price on his home.
The bad press has weakened the prime minister in parliament ahead of the Israeli-Palestinian peace conference scheduled for later this month in Annapolis.
**** Al Gore's investment fund Generation Investment Management forged an alliance with the San Francisco venture capitalist firm KPCB. The investment groups pledged to fund more clean technology start-ups.
**** Iranian officials gave the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) blueprints for making uranium hemispheres -- the key component for nuclear missiles-- a day before an IAEA report to the UN.
The hand-over took place days after British prime minister Gordon Brown suggested his country may bypass the UN in seeking EU-wide sanctions against Iran if Russia and China continue to delay meaningful action in the UN security council.
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