UN panel warns of climate changes
Paris: The U.N. climate panel has issued its strongest ever warning that human activities are heating the planet, and has put extra pressure on governments to do more to combat accelerating global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most authoritative group on warming which groups 2,500 scientists from more than 130 nations ahs predicted more severe rains, melting glaciers, droughts and heatwaves and a slow rise in sea levels.

The report said it was "very likely" (likelihood of more than 90 pc) that human activities led by burning fossil fuels explained most of the warming in the past 50 years in a shift from the last report, in 2001, when the IPCC said the link was "likely", or at least 66 percent probable.
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Toyota claims 2nd spot in US
Detroit: As General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. lost more than one sixth of their combined U.S. sales in January this year Toyota Motor Corp continued grabbing sales and has claimed the No. 2 spot in the U.S. market. Ford's sales plunged 19 percent and GM lost 16 percent, as both U.S. automakers cut their reliance on low-margin sales to car rental agencies and closed a combined 28 factories.

However, Toyota's sales grew by 10-pc in January and with its lineup of fuel-efficient cars.

DaimlerChrysler AG also registered a 3 pc rise in sales.
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