Rio+20 marks the twentieth anniversary of the first UN Earth conference, also held in Rio de Janeiro. The conference helped build support for the nineteen ninety-seven Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
At Lonely Planet, we’re big fans of the travel bargain. After all, the first guide we produced was Asia on the Cheap – and then Southeast Asia on a Shoestring. Just recently we’ve had articles about countries that can still be travelled on the cheap and how to cope in Copenhagen if you’re down to your last krone.
Manchester United has applied to list on the US stock market in a share sale aimed at raising $100m (£64m).
Several new device manufacturers and mobile carriers have lined up to support Mozilla’s mobile operating system. The software platform, which is based on Mozilla’s Boot2Gecko (B2G) project, will be called Firefox OS when it launches on handsets next year.
Third-party Android browsers like Opera Mobile, Dolphin HD, and Firefox will no longer support Flash in Android 4.1, aka Jelly Bean, as foreshadowed by Adobe's announcement last week that it will drop Flash Player support in Jelly Bean.
Many in Japan distrust the government's assurances that nuclear power is safe
By studying its crystal structure, scientists have discovered how the stomach bacterium Helicobacter pylori manages to navigate away from high levels of stomach acid. The discovery should lead to new ways to treat H. pylori infection, which is linked to stomach ulcers and cancer.
UN population fund: Vietnam is aging fast
The former England captain David Beckham has spoken of his disappointment after the shock decision to leave him out of the Team GB Olympic football squad.
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