Beijing - Richer, developed nations should lead the effort against climate change and help developing nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, China said Wednesday.

Longtime industrialized nations have a duty because of their historic responsibility for the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to provide cooperation, financing and technology transfers to poorer, developing countries, China's cabinet said in the White Book, their foremost policy document on climate change.

The vice chairman of China's top economic planning body said rich nations should commit at least 0.7 per cent of their gross domestic products to help poor countries fight global warming.

Paris/Brussels - The European Union is extending a loan of 6.5 billion euros (8.25 billion dollars) to Hungary to give the country added liquidity in the face of the economic crisis, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday.

France currently holds the EU presidency, and Lagarde chairs the council of EU finance ministers.

Officials from the EU's executive, the European Commission, confirmed the announcement in a statement released in Brussels.

Hanoi - Vietnamese Communist Party authorities are to fire two editors at a national newspaper that published articles critical of the government's policy, sources at the paper said Wednesday.

"We have received the Party's decision to punish us," said Dang Ngoc, vice editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dai Doan Ket (Great Unity). "The decision said that we had violated Vietnam's press law."

Dai Doan Ket is the voice of Vietnam's Fatherland Front, a powerful patriotic organization affiliated with the Communist Party.

Washington, October 29: An international team of researchers claims that it has unearthed evidence for the movement of Asian forms of avian influenza to Alaska by northern pintail ducks.

Scientists with the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) joined forces with researchers at the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska and the University of Tokyo to study the role of migratory birds in the transfer of avian influenza viruses between Asia and North America.

Hilary Swank, the American actress, requested the women to donate their hair to a charity for making wigs for cancer victims.

As the American actress has done many things for women and cancer, now she pays her attention to those women who has lost hair due to cancer.

In a new movie, she plays a role as aviator Amelia Earheart who cuts off her hair and donate them for women who lose it when they undergo chemotherapy.

Now, she is campaigning for Beautiful Lengths to encourage other women to make a contribution in donating hair for cancer victims.

Washington, Oct 29 : Scientists at the University of Calgary (U of C) and the Royal Tyrrell Museum are providing new insight into the sense of smell of carnivorous dinosaurs, as part of a new study, which found that Tyrannosaurus rex had the best nose of all meat-eating dinosaurs.

The study, by U of C paleontologist Darla Zelenitsky and Royal Tyrrell Museum curator of dinosaur palaeoecology Francois Therrien, is the first time that the sense of smell has been evaluated in prehistoric meat-eating dinosaurs.

They found that Tyrannosaurus rex had the best nose of all meat-eating dinosaurs, and their results tone down the reputation of T. rex as a scavenger.