The world’s leading industrialised nations are set to take an important step in the fight against global warming, the trickiest subject on their agenda in Japan
France has begun its six month leadership of the European Union, with President Nicolas Sarkozy vowing to protect EU citizens in the face of soaring fuel and food prices
World leaders open a three-day summit on the global food crisis in Italy today, with human rights activists warning the world's poor need action, not words
