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 ...
![A Syrian woman displaced by the war walks with her child in a neighborhood with a high concentration of Syrian refugees on November 9, 2013 in Beirut, Lebanon. [Spencer Platt/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/187473736.jpg?itok=R-W-SP8N "A Syrian woman displaced by the war walks with her child in a neighborhood with a high concentration of Syrian refugees on November 9, 2013 in Beirut, Lebanon. [Spencer Platt/Getty Images]")
![Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/143660567.jpg?itok=eRDxqLg1 "Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt [AFP]")
![The lawmakers said Israel keeps talking about the threat of nuclear weapons in the Middle East while it possesses hundreds of nuclear warheads itself. [presstv.ir]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/336869_UK-parliament.jpg?itok=NJateu9p "The lawmakers said Israel keeps talking about the threat of nuclear weapons in the Middle East while it possesses hundreds of nuclear warheads itself. [presstv.ir]")
![Syria has rejected the exclusion of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from political transition in the country. [Getty Images/Sasha Mordovets]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/98963545.jpg?itok=4lIVRsBc "Syria has rejected the exclusion of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from political transition in the country. [Getty Images/Sasha Mordovets]")
![Members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria. [presstv.ir]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/shamsara20130817042224960.jpg?itok=JFKQOSqd "Members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Syria. [presstv.ir]")
![A picture taken on November 13, 2013, shows debris and damaged buildings in the town of Hujeira south of the Syrian capital Damascus. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/187855111.jpg?itok=rAsrkrC9 "A picture taken on November 13, 2013, shows debris and damaged buildings in the town of Hujeira south of the Syrian capital Damascus. [AFP]")
![French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/186690158.jpg?itok=EzPiD0f0 "French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius [AFP]")
