For 95% of the contiguous United States the first 5 days of October has started below normal, with about half the country decidedly so, running 5-12 degrees subpar. For much of the Western US and Northern Plains this is a marked change from the month of September when temperatures ran 4-8 degrees abov… Continue

Spy row has broken out at the G8 summit after Italian aides were accused of spying on secret meetings between other countries' leaders

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US president goes on first trip to Russia and calls on Moscow to stop viewing America as an enemy Luke Harding in Moscow guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 7 July 2009 15.07 BST Article history http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/07/obama-russia-first-trip Barack Obama today set out his vision for a new post-cold war world, and urged Russia not to interfere in neighbouring states and to move on "from o… Continue

By Flavia Krause-Jackson July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Pope Benedict XVI called for a new financial order with “real teeth” as Group of Eight leaders prepare to discuss ways out of the worst recession since World War II. “Profit is useful if it serves as a means toward an end,” he wrote in a letter to Catholic bishops worldwide published today. “Once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and cr… Continue