Nairobi - The head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other environmental experts Monday called for an urgent transition to a green economy as the best way to pull the world out of global recession in a sustainable manner.

Speaking as an international conference of over 100 environment ministers got underway in Nairobi, Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director and UN Under-Secretary General, said that stimulus packages designed to kick start ailing economies should dedicate serious investment to green technologies.

New Delhi, Feb 16 : US civil rights leader Martin Luther King III inaugurated a special exhibition "Journey towards Freedom" on Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King here today.

King said peace, love and non-violence are necessary in every day life, and hoped that people would be able to know about the philosophy and thoughts of both Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Junior.

On Sunday, King and an American delegation visited Rajghat, Gandhi''s memorial in the national capital.

New Delhi, Feb 16 : President Pratibha Patil today presented Hindi Sevi Samman - 2007 awards to a number of Hindi experts for playing their important role in promoting the Hindi language.

The award ceremony was organised by Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra, which is an autonomous organization under the Department of Higher Education, Union Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Seoul - South Korean Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou Hwan died Monday at the age of 86, media reports said.

Kim, who was the country's first Roman Catholic cardinal and played an important role in South Korea's democratization, died at Seoul's Saint Mary's Hospital, where he had been hospitalized for the past year.

He had been treated for pneumonia and complications for several months and had fallen into brief comas multiple times, the national new agency Yonhap reported.

New Delhi - Richard Holbrooke, the US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, held talks Monday with Indian leaders in New Delhi on the last leg of a fact-finding tour to the region.

Holbrooke, who had earlier visited Pakistan and Afghanistan, met with Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, an official of the External Affairs Ministry said.

The two leaders were expected to discuss the November terrorist attacks in Mumbai, a diplomatic official said earlier.

Chennai, Feb 16 : Siritunga Jayasuriya, a leader of Sri Lanka''s United Socialist Party, now on a visit to India, said that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), will retaliate if the Sri Lankan army continues the military war against them.

He asserted this in the course of an exclusive interview with ANI here on Sunday by contending the military action against the LTTE is not the permanent solution unlike a dialogue between the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE.

Siritunga Jayasuriya said that winning the war by military means would not be an end to the Tamil problem. It will only strengthen Prabhakaran or the LTTE.