While BA and the British government have yet to wake up and smell the carbon, the recession and high oil prices have begun to turn the short-haul flying culture sour.

Beauty Contest Victories: 1984 Miss Wasilla, 1984 Miss Alaska, 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential Nomination

She flies while giving birth! She can field-dress a moose! She said "Thanks but no thanks" to the "Bridge to Nowhere"! Or did she? As she debuts on the national stage, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has inspired a heap of questions, but she remains a mystery.

Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark MacPhail in Georgia. Since then, all but two of the state's nine non-police witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony.

Mr. Davis is charged with killing a police officer, based entirely on eyewitness evidence. There is no physical evidence in the case, and the murder weapon was never recovered.

We're here to protest illegal and destructive logging practices, which are rife in PNG, and the impact this is having on the global climate. The company responsible for the logging of this timber breaches forestry laws, then ships it to other countries.

With his choice of Sarah Palin for vice president, John McCain has completed his makeover from the greenest Republican to run for president to just another representative of big oil.

Google will today launch its own web browser called Google Chrome in another expansion by the search giant into the building blocks of the internet.

Ronald Dufrene sent his family away over the weekend, but he is riding out Hurricane Gustav on his shrimp boat docked 20 miles south of New Orleans in Lafitte, Louisiana.