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Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chairman of the IPCC Working Group III, Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary of the German Enviroment Ministry, Rejendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the IPCC, and Jochen Schuette, state secretary of the German Science Ministry, from left, pose for the media prior to a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Berlin, Germany, on April 7. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

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UN climate report balances science and politics

Associated Press, Karl Ritter -

April 12, 2014 4:00 am

A customer leaves a private super market with her purchases, including toilet paper, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. First milk, butter, coffee and cornmeal ran short. Now Venezuela is running out of the most basic of necessities _ toilet paper. Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the embattled socialist government says it will import 50 million rolls to boost supplies. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuelans scrambling to find scarce toilet paper

Fabiola Sanchez, Karl Ritter -

May 16, 2013 4:00 am

Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, right, of Duke University, arrives at his office at Duke to congratulations on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, the day Lefkowitz heard he had won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka of Stanford University School of Medicine won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals like danger or the flavor of food. Such studies are key for developing better drugs. (AP Photo//Ted Richardson)

2 US scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

Louise Nordstrom, Karl Ritter -

October 10, 2012 4:00 am

This 2009 photo provided Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012 by the CNRS (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique) shows French physician Serge Haroche in Paris. Haroche and U.S David Wineland share the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012 for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the first steps toward building superfast computers. (AP Photo/CNRS/ Christophe Lebedinsky) EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO USE AFTER DEC.31 2012

US, French physicists win Nobel for quantum work

Louise Nordstrom, Karl Ritter -

October 9, 2012 4:00 am

Leader of the independent commission Alexandra Bech Gjoerv, left, speaks during a press conference about investigation into the July 22, 2011 attacks in Norway In Oslo Monday Aug.13, 2012. The bomb attack on the government quarter in Oslo on July 22, 2011 could have been prevented, said the report released on Monday by the independent commission investigating police response to the dramatic events. Through the effective implementation of already adopted security measures, last year's attack on the government quarter indowntown Oslo could have been prevented, the commission concluded (AP Photo/Berit Roald / NTB scanpix) NORWAY OUT

Flaws in Norway massacre response uncovered

Karl Ritter, Bjoern Amland -

August 13, 2012 4:00 am