鈥淲e have 鈥榮urvival鈥� emissions, you have lifestyle emissions.鈥�
Shyam Saran, India鈥檚 envoy to the UN climate conference in Poznan, Poland, on why India won鈥檛 accept emissions limits (The Guardian, London, 8 December)
鈥淲e longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life.鈥�
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Rajo Devi of Hisar in India, who at age 70 has given birth to a girl. Devi conceived 20 years after her menopause with the help of IVF (The Times of India, 7 December)
鈥淲e need to move away from passwords. The laissez-faire approach to cyber-security has failed.鈥�
Tom Kellermann, a member of a US government-industry panel on cyber-security that is calling for action to stem a barrage of security breaches to government agencies鈥� computer systems (The New York Times, 8 December)
鈥淓at a camel today, I鈥檝e done it. It鈥檚 beautiful meat, a bit like beef.鈥�
Murray McGregor of the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre in Canberra, author of a report which found that Australia鈥檚 1 million camels are running wild in the desert, destroying precious water resources (Telegraph.co.uk, 9 December)
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know what this mad prime minister [Gordon Brown] is talking about鈥� He is asking for an invasion of Zimbabwe.鈥�
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe claims the UK is using a cholera outbreak, which has so far killed 600 people, as an excuse to invade his country. The head of the UN Children鈥檚 Fund in Zimbabwe says the death toll could rise to 2700 (Times Online, London, 8 December)