As global planet-healing talks fizzle, the chief planet-healer inexplicably spends hours hitting ball with stick on different continent

UN climate talks wrap up after fresh rows

Three days of talks aimed at putting a new gloss on UN climate talks ended here late Sunday after new textual trench warfare less than four months after a stormy summit in Copenhagen.

Countries wrangled for hours beyond the scheduled close over the work schedule under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and what blueprint to adopt for further negotiations.

"The negotiations were very tense. There is a lot of mistrust," said French chief negotiator Paul Watkinson.

The Associated Press: Obama leaves WH without press, breaking protocol

About two hours before reporters were supposed to be in position to leave with the president, Obama left the grounds of the White House. Members of the press were told he was attending one of his daughter's soccer games in northwest Washington, D.C.
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Obama eventually left the White House again on Saturday for a round of golf.