London, Apr. 13 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's close aide, Damian McBride, plotted to cripple Tory election hopes with a vile campaign of unfounded and obscene rumours.

McBride, Brown's strategy chief, quit after e-mails detailing his sinister smear plan were leaked.

A furious Conservative party leader, David Cameron, however, demanded a personal apology from Brown, saying that he was championing corruption and sleaze in Downing Street.

London, Mar 25 : Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US Vice President Al Gore has announced that the follow-up to his 2006 best-seller "An Inconvenient Truth" will release in November.

The new book, Our Choice, is on climate change that proposes solutions to global warming and present climate crisis.

It will be published on recycled paper by Rodale Books.

Washington  - Former US vice president Al Gore on Wednesday urged a stronger global effort to combat climate change as governments gear up for a tough year of negotiations on a new global treaty to lower greenhouse-gas emissions.

Gore, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to raise awareness of global warming, said he rejected as a "false choice" the debate between tackling climate change and averting a recession that has taken hold in the United States and many other economies.

Washington, Dec. 12 : Former US Vice President Al Gore will host a "green" inaugural ball the night before President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office.

"The Green Ball: Inauguration of a New Green Economy" will be held on January 19 at the Smithsonian''s National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

As he took the stage to the applause from about 200 supporters, former Vice President Al Gore said in Florida that the choice between the two presidential candidates – Barack Obama and John McCain – is a clear one. He added that it was practically the choice between change and more of the same.  

Gore’s visit to Florida marked the first time he has hit the campaign trail for Obama after endorsing him in June, and speaking at the Democratic National Convention in August.

Denver, Colorado - Former vice president Al Gore on Thursday sought to assure US voters that Barack Obama has the experience to lead the country in difficult times and to solve the "planetary emergency" of climate change, Gore's own signature issue.

Gore took the stage to a massive roar from the crowd of 75,000 that shook Invesco Field in Denver, Colorado, where Obama was to give a speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination later in the evening.