A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won’t Hurt the Climate

It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science — creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the future of the planet in a set of equations and how the forces of climate change will affect it.

US, China vow greater economic and security cooperation

BEIJING — The United States and China vowed today to improve their economic and security cooperation, saying they wouldn't let persistent differences over maritime claims, cyberhacking and currency hamper a relationship critical to global peace and prosperity.

Lloyd's calls on insurers to take into account climate-change risk

Lloyd's of London, the world's oldest and biggest insurance market, has for the first time called on insurers to incorporate climate change into their models.

Buffett says economy continues to grow steadily

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Investor Warren Buffett says the economy continues the steady improvement that began in fall of 2009 and he remains optimistic despite Russia's advance into Ukraine.

Davos 2014: Widening wealth gap 'biggest risk' in 2014

The increasing gap between rich and poor is seen as the biggest risk to global stability, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum (WEF). In its annual report it warned that income disparity is seen as the risk "most likely to to cause serious damage globally in the coming decade".

Barack Obama to focus on economy, guns, immigration

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will be looking across a vast partisan divide on Tuesday night as he reports to Congress and the nation, hoping he can bend recalcitrant lawmakers to join him in a second-term drive to boost taxes to raise government spending power and to reform laws on gun ownership and immigration.

Key India-US talks due in Washington

Indian Foreign Minister SM Krishna and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are due to begin talks in Washington as part of the US-India strategic dialogue.

UN official to fix broken global economy

New York, Feb 8 : The world needs “a global new deal” to break the mould of economic thought that led to the international financial crisis, the head of the United Nations agency tasked with promoting trade and development said on Tuesday.