The massive glaciers are deteriorating twice as fast as they were five years ago. If the ice thaws entirely, sea level would rise 21 feet.

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that wartime tribunals are not valid under U.S. law or international treaties, a political and legal blow to the Bush administration’s broad claims of executive power.

A computer expert has claimed that he warned police about two of the July 7 bombers nearly two years before the attacks on London, intensifying pressure on the Government to launch a public inquiry into the atrocities.

Norway is starting construction on a “doomsday vault” in the Arctic which is designed to house all known varieties of the world’s crops.

Kennedy: “I’ve been meeting with attorneys…to devise a litigation strategy. And I would say that very soon we’ll be announcing lawsuits against some of the individuals and companies involved.”