Turkey will not apologise for downing a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border but Moscow should reconsider retaliatory sanctions, Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu said yesterday as he held talks at Nato headquarters.

Let me be clear: The fate of the Paris agreement rests with you. The future of your people, the future of our planet. We have never faced such a test -- a political moment like this may not come again, said UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

Violence cast a long shadow over a climate summit opening in Paris yesterday, two weeks after 130 people were killed in a coordinated jihadist onslaught on the French capital.

The heads of 147 states attend the UN climate change conference in Paris - also there will be Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and 27 other billionaires, who have pledged to fund research to develop a technical fix to the planet's climate woes. The Breakthrough Energy Coalition - which also includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Virgin's Richard Branson and Alibaba founder Jack Ma - was announced yesterday with a promise to “invest early,invest broadly, invest boldly, invest wisely and invest together”.

Dutch police have suspended an officer who tried to sell online souvenirs said to have come from the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 shot down over

Germany is planning to deploy 1,200 troops to help France in the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria, its army chief said

Countries will be looking at ways to limit global warming to two degrees by 2100 by curbing carbon emissions. This could include

"Copenhagen". The mere mention of the Danish capital's name can send a chill down the spine of even the toughest climate negotiator.

Protesters take part in global climate rallies in New Delhi, Sydney, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Athens, and Seoul demanding a deal at the Paris World Climate Change Conference, known as the COP21 summit, to save the world, yesterday. Tens of thousands of people from Sydney to London

Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told parliament yesterday, days after the Kremlin threatened to punish Kiev for a power blackout of Russian-annexed Crimea.

Climate disasters may double in the next two decades unless the world cuts its carbon dioxide emissions, the Asian Development Bank

Europe risks collapsing like the Roman Empire over the refugee crisis, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has warned according to the Financial Times, as his country gears up to be the next EU president.

President Francois Hollande yesterday vowed that France would respond to the "army of fanatics" which carried out the Paris attacks with more songs, concerts and shows, as the nation paused to pay homage to the victims.

Anti-Muslim hate crimes rose 300 percent in Britain in the week following the coordinated attacks in Paris, according to figures

President Francois Hollande received strong backing from British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday as global efforts to crush

Russia has bombed the Islamic State group in the heaviest strikes in eastern Syria since the war began, as Moscow's military manoeuvres in the Mediterranean forced Lebanon to reroute flights.

The World Health Organization yesterday confirmed that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has surfaced in Liberia, which was declared

Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman believed to have blown herself up during the police raid that killed the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, swapped her party-girl persona for that of an Islamist radical just months before her death.

The top suspect behind last week's Paris attacks was watched by police being led into a building by a woman suicide bomber the evening before they both died there during a raid by special forces, a police source said yesterday.

The suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified as one of those killed in a raid in Saint Denis, the Paris prosecutor says.