HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Russian President Vladimir Putin turned the tables on Washington by suggesting the United States use a Russian-controlled radar instead of US anti-missile hardware in central Europe.
At a meeting with US President George W. Bush duringa Group of Eight summit, Putin proposed that the United States and Russia jointly use a radar in Azerbaijan as part of an anti-missile shield that would protect all of Europe.
Mystery caller brings fresh hints to Madeleine search
The search for Madeleine McCann gained fresh momentum today as it emerged a mystery caller claiming to know what had happened to the missing girl was deemed by British Police to be so "credible" that they prepared her parents for the prospect of speaking to him.
Kate and Gerry McCann delayed their flight from Berlin's Tempelhof Airport to Amsterdam on Wednesday afternoon after the anonymous call and spent an agonising three hours at the British Embassy in Berlin while officers attempted to re-establish with the man.
His call was traced to an unregistered pay-as-you-go phone from a country outside Europe.
But efforts to re-establish contact with the caller failed and the McCanns were finally advised to proceed to Amsterdam as planned.
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - World leaders agreed to pursue substantial but unspecified cuts in greenhouse gases and work with the United Nations to clinch a new deal to fight global warming by 2009.
The agreement, sealed at a G8 summit on the Baltic coast, binds the world's largest polluter, the United States, more closely into international efforts to curb the gases scientists say are causing dangerous changes to world weather patterns.
But it does not commit the club of industrialised nations -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States -- to the firm emissions reduction targets that the summit host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, had wanted.
