Landmark carbon limits plan for UK

In its draft Climate Change Bill, the Government said carbon dioxide emissions had to be cut by at least 60 per cent by 2050, set out five-year carbon budgets to reach the target and created an independent monitoring committee to check annual progress.

Prime Minister Tony Blair put climate change at the top of the international agenda when Britain was head of the Group of Eight industrialised nations in 2005 and it could now become the first nation to limit emissions by statute.

…The draft bill will go to three months of public and parliamentary consultation before becoming law next year, but green campaigners want to raise the 2050 target to 80 per cent and set annual three per cent cut targets to ensure compliance.

…The Kyoto Protocol is a global pact on tackling carbon gas emissions from burning fossil fuels for power and transport that scientists say will boost average temperatures by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees Celsius this century.

Pet tiger tears off woman’s arm

A pet Siberian tiger tore off a woman’s arm who was trying to feed the animal at a family farm in Montenegro today, a hospital official said.

Slavka Sekulovic, whose son keeps two of the rare animals at the property near the coastal town of Sutomore, was attacked by one of them during feeding, said doctor Zoran Srzentic.

The woman was brought to the hospital in “extreme traumatic shock, losing lots of blood,” Srzentic said.