PARIS (AP) – The world is about to go on a carbon diet. It won’t be easy – or cheap. Nearly 200 nations across the world on Saturday approved a first-of-its-kind universal agreement to wean Earth off fossil fuels and slow global warming, patting themselves on the back for showing …

LE BOURGET, France (AP) – France presented negotiators from 190 nations with what it called a “final draft” of an unprecedented climate deal to slow global warming and urged them to approve it on Saturday. The deal, called the “Paris agreement,” would limit rising temperatures and sea levels, and eventually …

LE BOURGET, France (AP) – The latest on the U.N. climate conference outside Paris (all times local): 2:30 p.m. A top climate scientist who was critical of draft negotiation texts on Friday has praised the final draft as being consistent with science. John Schellnhuber, director of Germany’s Potsdam Institute for …

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – Thousands of Saudi women headed to polling stations across the kingdom on Saturday, both as voters and candidates for the first time in a landmark election. Nearly 6,000 men and around 980 women are running as candidates for local municipal council seats. More than 130,000 …

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) – Burundi’s political violence escalated Saturday as 28 people were found shot dead in three neighborhoods in the capital, a day after the government said an unidentified group carried out coordinated attacks on three military installations. A climate of fear has engulfed the capital, Bujumbura, after the …

NEW DELHI (AP) – Two cities. Two very polluted cities. And two very different ways of dealing with twin public health crises. When Beijing’s air was forecast to reach hazardous levels for three straight days earlier in December, the government issued a smog red alert. The result: Half the city’s …

NEW YORK (AP) – The mobile payment wars are heating up. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, said it’s launching its own mobile payment system that will allow shoppers to pay with any major credit or debit card or its own store gift card through its existing smartphone app …

PARIS (AP) – The latest news related to the U.N. climate conference outside Paris. All times local: 12:05 p.m. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to return to marathon global climate negotiations after staying at the conference site into the wee hours of the morning. Celebrating his 72nd …

ZWICKAU, Germany (AP) – Christmas carols sound in the medieval square, and the scents of hot spiced wine, anise cookies and beeswax candles waft through the air at Zwickau’s traditional Christmas market. The four children of the Habashieh family, Muslim Syrian refugees, wander from stand to stand, looking with big …

MOSCOW (AP) – The latest news related to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with top military officials in Moscow. All times local: 2:05 p.m. Turkey’s foreign minister says his country is refraining from responding to Russian efforts to hit back at Turkey over its downing of a Russian jet, but …