Britain will ban the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars from 2035, five years earlier than planned, in an attempt to reduce air pollution that could herald the end of over a century of reliance on the internal combustion engine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to use the announcement to elevate the United Kingdom's environmental credentials after he sacked the head of a Glasgow UN Climate Change ...
![French President Francois Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. {Bob Edme/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/155109544.jpg?itok=aaCJUZFW "French President Francois Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. {Bob Edme/Getty Images]")
![The head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/187967130.jpg?itok=4ymuCnwP "The head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. [Getty Images]")
![Borge Brende said Norway would dispatch a civilian cargo ship and a Navy frigate to Syrian ports to pick up the stockpiles and carry them elsewhere for destruction. [Reuters]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/nor.jpg?itok=3p6Bnx7d "Borge Brende said Norway would dispatch a civilian cargo ship and a Navy frigate to Syrian ports to pick up the stockpiles and carry them elsewhere for destruction. [Reuters]")
![Signs at the seats where Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian representative Saeb Erekat were to sit in a meeting with the Middle East Quartet during the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly September 27, 2013 at UN headquarters in New York. [Stan Honda/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/182028604.jpg?itok=27fXLe1U "Signs at the seats where Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Palestinian representative Saeb Erekat were to sit in a meeting with the Middle East Quartet during the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly September 27, 2013 at UN headquarters in New York. [Stan Honda/Getty Images]")
![Iran's president Hassan Rouhani at a press conference, in Tehran in early 2013. [timesofisrael]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/iran/APTOPIX-Mideast-Iran_Horo-e1379687164617.jpg?itok=mWU36YnJ "Iran's president Hassan Rouhani at a press conference, in Tehran in early 2013. [timesofisrael]")
![US Secretary of State John Kerry, United Nations-Arab League special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a press conference after their high-stakes talks on Syria's chemical weapons at the UN headquarters in Geneva, on September 13, 2013. [Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/180456102.jpg?itok=CcU_afLc "US Secretary of State John Kerry, United Nations-Arab League special envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a press conference after their high-stakes talks on Syria's chemical weapons at the UN headquarters in Geneva, on September 13, 2013. [Getty Images]")
![Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the Israeli leader had ordered the ministry to put the E1 plan on hold due to the extreme sensitivity. [ibtimes]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Israel/nety.jpg?itok=JApKUKB3 "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the Israeli leader had ordered the ministry to put the E1 plan on hold due to the extreme sensitivity. [ibtimes]")
