Karl Ritter

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New brand costs dent H&M’s Q4 profits

Karl Ritter · January 30, 2013 10:54 am

Local and international activists march inside a conference center under a giant statue of a spider to demand urgent action to address climate change at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. A dispute over money clouded U.N. climate talks Friday, as rich and poor countries sparred over funds meant to help the developing world cover the rising costs of mitigating global warming and adapting to it. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

After climate talks, eyes on US for next round

Karl Ritter · December 9, 2012 7:02 pm

People attend the U.N. climate talks conference in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. The delegates are aiming to seal an interim pact by December 7 on reducing Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions.(AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Tensions mount as UN climate talks near end

Karl Ritter · December 6, 2012 9:23 pm

People attend the U.N. climate talks conference in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. The delegates are aiming to seal an interim pact by December 7 on reducing Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions.(AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Tensions mount as UN climate talks near end

Karl Ritter · December 6, 2012 9:01 pm

In this Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 photo, a man fills gasoline in plastic containers at a gas station in Doha, Qatar. The host of the current U.N. climate talks, Qatar, is among dozens of nations that keep gas prices low through subsidies that exceeded $500 billion globally last year. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

At climate talks, UN chief rejects warming doubts

Karl Ritter · December 4, 2012 5:59 pm

United Nations Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, second left, speaks during a press conference along side Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister and president of the 18th United Nations Convention on Climate Change, Abdullah bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, second and on screens, right, in Doha, Qatar,Monday, Dec. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Fossil fuel subsidies in focus at climate talks

Karl Ritter · December 3, 2012 7:17 pm

Local and international activists march to demand urgent action to address climate change at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, Saturday , Dec. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

New Zealand: Forget Kyoto, write new climate deal

Karl Ritter · December 2, 2012 5:00 am

Local and international activists march to demand urgent action to address climate change at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, Saturday , Dec. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Climate activists march outside UN talks in Qatar

Karl Ritter · December 1, 2012 12:58 pm

EU climate head wants Obama to pull his weight

Karl Ritter · November 15, 2012 4:33 pm

Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, right, of Duke University, arrives at his office at Duke to congratulations on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, the day Lefkowitz heard he had won the 2012 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Lefkowitz and Brian Kobilka of Stanford University School of Medicine won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for studies of protein receptors that let body cells sense and respond to outside signals like danger or the flavor of food. Such studies are key for developing better drugs. (AP Photo//Ted Richardson)

2 US scientists win Nobel chemistry prize

Louise Nordstrom, Karl Ritter · October 10, 2012 4:00 am

This 2009 photo provided Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012 by the CNRS (Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique) shows French physician Serge Haroche in Paris. Haroche and U.S David Wineland share the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday Oct. 9, 2012 for inventing methods to observe the bizarre properties of the quantum world, research that has led to the construction of extremely precise clocks and helped scientists take the first steps toward building superfast computers. (AP Photo/CNRS/ Christophe Lebedinsky) EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO USE AFTER DEC.31 2012

US, French physicists win Nobel for quantum work

Louise Nordstrom, Karl Ritter · October 9, 2012 4:00 am

This is two photos made available Monday Oct. 1, 2012 by Ikea in Sweden and taken from Swedish, left, and Saudi Arabian, right, IKEA catalogue for 2013 . Ikea is being criticized for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its furniture catalogue, a move the company says it regrets. Comparing the Swedish and Saudi versions of the Ikea catalogue, Sweden's free newspaper Metro on Monday showed that women had been airbrushed out of otherwise identical pictures showcasing the company's home furnishings. (AP Photo /Ikea via Scanpix Sweden) SWEDEN OUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Ikea deleted women from Saudi version of catalog

Karl Ritter · October 1, 2012 4:00 am