Al Gore announced Monday that he is joining Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to help the private sector take on global warming, and perhaps make some money. ...more

November 13, 2007

A View From Above Regarding 'Gore '08? Nobel Adds Speculation' (front page, Oct. 13): ...more

October 19, 2007

President Bush, raising Beijing's ire, presented the Dalai Lama on Wednesday with the U.S. Congress' highest civilian honor and urged Chinese leaders to welcome the monk to Beijing. ...more

October 18, 2007

The Dalai Lama, after meeting privately Tuesday with President Bush, brushed off China's furious reaction to U.S. celebrations this week in his honor. ...more

October 17, 2007

David Lynch, on a five-day visit to Israel to encourage transcendental meditation, met with Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shimon Peres. ...more

October 16, 2007

He spent decades trying to get the world to listen and believe as he did that global warming would destroy the planet unless people changed their behavior, and fast. ...more

October 14, 2007

Prime Minister Gen. Soe Win, reviled for his role in a bloody attack on Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her followers in 2003, died Friday after a long illness, relatives and state media said. He was 59 and was said to have been suffering from leukemia. ...more

October 14, 2007

What does global warming have to do with global peace? The globe may find out sooner than we think, experts say. ...more

October 13, 2007

Plenty of people share the glory of the Nobel Peace Prize - thousands of scientists have been studying and documenting climate change under a U.N. body set up in 1988 as concerns grew about global warming. ...more

October 13, 2007

Al Gore's seven-year journey from loser to laureate began in bitterness, settled for a time into self-imposed exile and led him in the end to rediscover his voice on climate change. ...more

October 13, 2007