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According to UN estimates, the global population surpassed the eight-billion mark on 15 November. Increased life expectancy as well as sustained high birth rates in some regions of the world are the reasons. Can the planet cope?

The 27th UN Climate Change Conference is coming to an end in Egypt. A key topic of the huge event with more than 190 participating countries was the demand that industrialised countries, as the main perpetrators of climate change, pay compensation to the worst affected developing countries. There is a fierce debate in Europe's press about whether such meetings and measures can really help to save the climate.

Blocked motorways, occupied universities and smeared paintings: all over the world, climate activists are looking for new ways to draw attention to the urgent need for action. Commentators view this with mixed feelings.

For the first time since the start of the Ukraine war, the heads of the US and Russian foreign intelligence services, Bill Burns and Sergei Naryshkin, have met in Ankara to exchange views on how to prevent a nuclear war. Commentators speculate on what else was said at the meeting.