The game plan is to pressure India and China to come back and commit to further emissions cuts by next year's UN meeting. Neither China nor India has 2030 targets anywhere near in line with a 1.5 degree centigrade pathway, and so will be on the target list of nations under pressure to return next year with more ambition, predicts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
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They tend to wounds and provide much-needed mental support all year around, yet the wives and girlfriends of professional riders often feel left out in the sport's male-dominated world.
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Germany are champions of the world again after snatching victory against Argentina in the soccer showpiece with a superb extra-time goal from baby-faced Mario Goetze to lift the trophy for the first time since 1990.
Most of India knows Deep Sidhu as the man who planted the Sikh religious flag on Red Fort.
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Images from Day 5 in the second Test between England and India, at Lord's, on Monday.
Can you tell us what your waist measures without actually checking it?
Manchester United's past and future collided as debutant James Wilson scored twice in a 3-1 win over Hull City on Tuesday that marked the end of stalwart Nemanja Vidic's Old Trafford career and set tongues wagging about Ryan Giggs.
Nzone Skydive, an adventure sport program from Queenstown, New Zealand, played host to the WAGS of India's cricketers.
Coleen Rooney swapped her maternity wear for a flirty snake-print mini dress that showed off her tanned legs, to attend a Christmas party hosted by Liverpool's popular Cricket boutique.
Agarwal's relationship with the finance ministry has been choppy, particularly after P Chidambaram.
"If anybody with a mass base joins the BJP or any political party, everybody welcomes him. Expressing trust in our ideology, if anybody joins us we will welcome him with open arms. This is a normal procedure," Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat told reporters in New Delhi.
Meet the best dressed WAGs this wedding season.
The two actresses were caught on camera before the Rocky S show on Day Three of the Lamke Fashion Week among many others.
All non-professional leagues have been cancelled although clubs in the top two divisions have resumed training in groups of up to 10 players.
The very timing of the Phalke Award on Rajini now, days ahead of Tamil Nadu voting in the assembly election, may have taken away the seriousness and credibility attaching to the Centre's decision, making it sound every bit political, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Do you know who Abhishek Kapoor, John Abraham and Rajkumar Gupta are dating?
The sexier halves of our swashbuckling cricketers.
Joginder Tuteja looks at the Top 10 movies of 2000.
Here's how the ten most bankable men in the country performed in 2012.
Presenting some of the coolest health and well-being devices we spotted at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, US.
Here's the latest list of celebrity women with the 'Hottest Bikini Bodies' from across the world.
The West Indies made heavy weather of a reasonably easy chase before clinching an two-wicket victory over South Africa in their first Super Six match of the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup in Cuttack.
Everything happened so quickly that no one could make any sense of it," Kohli was unable to fathom what hit his team, said Kohli after his team were bundled out for 36 - India's lowest score in Test cricket.
No one in Bihar will deny Nitish Kumar's contribution to governance, notes Aditi Phadnis.
The story of the Zen master and the dogs in the temple has often been told and the message is that it can and has changed lives.
'The boys deserve all the credit for the character they showed, real character.'
Virat Kohli's split second indiscretion became his undoing as he went for a needless pull-shot to a well-disguised short ball.
The real Usain Bolt will make a return appearance at Rome's Diamond League meeting on Thursday, according to the Jamaican sprinter who got tongues wagging last week when he failed to break 10 seconds over 100 metres in Ostrava.
In signs of a thaw in the tense standoff between Pakistan's beleaguered government and the powerful army, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that democracy is not under threat and he has nothing against the military.
With the Nifty settling below 5,050 on the expiration of July 2012 series, tongues seem to have started to wag again over the outlook for the markets in India.
The Congress in Andhra Pradesh has chalked out a new strategy to fight the force of Jaganmohan Reddy. Sources say the party has decided to take a backseat while the Telugu Desam Party ups ante against the YSR Congress president.
Will numbers 1 to 8 in the BJP pull together so that it is a strong and formidable BJP which makes for a BJP-led NDA and not an NDA where the multiple docked tails are wagging the dog, asks Radha Rajan
Telugu Desam Party supremo Chandrababu Naidu's visit to the Karnataka Raj Bhavan on Tuesday has set tongues wagging in Andhra Pradesh.
These silver screen celebs could give Bollywood a run for their money.