Brussels- The European Commission on Wednesday urged European governments to submit detailed plans on how they intend to provide billions in aid to halve world hunger by 2015.

"(European Union) member states should set out clearly what they are prepared to spend on aid, year by year, until 2015," the EU executive's president, Jose Manuel Barroso, said.

At around 850 million, the number of chronically undernourished people in the world remains stubbornly high, and United Nations officials have warned that world governments will likely fail to reach their 1996 Millennium Development Goal of halving the number by 2015.

Vienna - Bilateral issues were forced into the background on Wednesday as Jordan'

Copenhagen - Wednesday welcomed reports that his cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed has been removed from a controversial anti-Islam film made by a Dutch opposition legislator.

"I am very happy that (Geert) Wilders has removed my drawing. I am aware that the cartoon has almost become an icon and lives its own life but I try to uphold my copyright as far as possible," Westergaard told public broadcaster DR news of the cartoon depicting the prophet with a bomb in his turban.

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