Ukraine's deadline for pro-Russian rebels to surrender passes
Acting president says operation to seize back government buildings in east Ukraine occupied by separatists will begin soon
An ultimatum issued by Ukraine's acting president for pro-Russian protesters in control of government buildings in the east of the country to lay down their arms or face an "anti-terrorist" operation passed on Monday with no sign of movement on either side.
The deadline – 9am local time (0700 GMT) – passed after the UN security council met in an emergency session in New York, where Russia called Ukraine's threat to mobilise armed forces a "criminal order".
Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, said on Monday that the operation would begin soon. In a nationally televised address on Sunday night, he promised amnesty to those who had not fired at security forces if they laid down their arms and vacated seized government buildings.
War crimes trial of two Gadafy sons to begin in Tripoli today
Saif al-Islam and Saadi Gadafy accused of masterminding campaign of murder and torture
The war crimes trial of two sons of Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gadafy begins amid tight security in Tripoli today, in a case causing sensation at home and controversy among rights groups.
Saif al-Islam Gadafy (41) and his brother Saadi (40) are accused of orchestrating a campaign of murder, torture and bombardment of civilians during Libya’s eight-month civil war in 2011.
Appearing with them are Gadafy’s former spy chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, two former prime ministers and 34 senior officials representing much of the dictatorship’s surviving elite.
Dealing with climate change
Curbing the emission of industrial greenhouse gases will save the lives of millions of people around the world, writes the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its latest report.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released the final installment of its latest report, focusing this time on strategies for dealing with CO2 emissions. The earlier reports, released last September and in March, laid out evidence that human activity is causing global warming and examined the impact this will have on human life. This final installment investigates solutions, with particular focus on curbing industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
DW spoke with Dr. Edgar Hertwith, a professor of industrial ecology at the Norwegian University of Science Technology and a lead author of the IPCC report.
DW: This report seems to be shifting towards solutions. Carbon capture and Sequestration (CCS) is part of the package of ideas on the table. Can you explain what CCS is?
Wealthy Qatar, a backer of Syria's armed rebels, makes room for displaced students
The school uses the Syrian curriculum so that if and when the conflict ends, displaced children can easily resume their education in Syria.
On the outskirts of Doha in the neighborhood of Al Duhail, a weathered Free Syria flag flaps in the breeze. Inside a high-walled compound, Abdulqader al-Khatib sits with perfect posture behind his wooden desk. He is the principal of a new school in a dusty quarter most Qataris never visit, where 600 Syrian students are trying to restart their lives.
While Qatar has embraced the effort to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, it is less keen to take in Syrian refugees. Most of the 2.5 million Syrians fleeing the conflict are in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq. Far fewer have made it to wealthy Gulf states like Qatar, Kuwait, or Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Khatib, an engineer, is the brother of a prominent imam formerly based in Damascus who opposes Assad's regime. Last October, the Syrian School of Qatar opened its doors to children grades 1 to 11 using an adapted Syrian curriculum in the hope that students can eventually return home and continue their schooling. Its funding comes entirely from Qatar's government which has shown some flexibility in how it treats the children of displaced Syrians.
Ebola: A swift, effective and bloody killer
April 14, 2014 -- Updated 1104 GMT (1904 HKT)
Conakry, Guinea (CNN) -- It took only moments to feel the impact of what was happening here.
We had just landed in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. In the fields right outside the airport, a young woman was in tears. She started to wail and shout in Susu, one of the 40 languages spoken in this tiny country of 12 million people. The gathered crowd became silent and listened intently.
The young man sitting next to me quietly translated, although I already had my suspicions. He told me the woman's husband had died of Ebola, and then quickly ushered us away.
It is probably not surprising the airplane bringing us into Conakry was nearly empty, as are all the hotels here. Not many people in the United States have ever visited Guinea, or could even identify where it sits in West Africa. It is already one of the world's poorest countries, and the panic around Ebola is only making that worse.
10 inventions that owe their success to World War One
A material called Cellucotton had already been invented before war broke out, by what was then a small US firm - Kimberly-Clark. The company's head of research, Ernst Mahler, and its vice-president, James, C Kimberly, had toured pulp and paper plants in Germany, Austria and Scandinavia in 1914 and spotted a material five times more absorbent than cotton and - when mass-produced - half as expensive.
They took it back to the US and trademarked it. Then, once the US entered the war in 1917, they started producing the wadding for surgical dressing at a rate of 380-500ft per minute.
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