Bonn, Germany - Industrialized countries are continuing to emit more greenhouse gasses despite goals set by the Kyoto agreement to curb carbon pollution, a UN body said Monday.

The UN Climate Change Secretariat said planet-warming gases released by 40 industrial states that signed up the Kyoto framework increased an average 2.3 per cent between 2000-2006.

Bonn, Germany - Greenhouse gas emissions in industrialized countries have continued to rise despite goals set by the Kyoto agreement to curb carbon pollution, a UN body said Monday.

The UN Climate Change Secretariat said planet-warming gases released by the 40 industrial states that signed up the Kyoto framework had increased an average 2.3 per cent between 2000-2006.

Bonn, Germany  - Home PC hard drives tend to be huge. That does not help much when you need spontaneous access to documents or photos while out and about. One option is an external hard drive or memory stick, but that means more devices to be carried along.

The alternative, these days, is web hard drives - personal storage space on the internet that can be accessed from almost any computer. The services are easy to use, although the uploading of data often requires a heft chunk of time. Security should be taken into consideration as well.

Bonn, Germany - German mail delivery giant Deutsche Post AG said Monday it was slashing the workforce at its US DHL operations by a further 9,500 after forecasting the express delivery offshoot would post a full-year 1.5 billion dollars loss.

Deutsche Post's job cut plans will reduce DHL Express' 18,400 US workforce to about 3,500 with the American express postal delivery company hit by the rapid deterioration in the US economy following the world financial crisis.

Bonn, Germany - Germany's National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) will introduce from the start of 2009 strict new rules requiring the country's top athletes to make themselves available for at least one hour a day for random dope tests.

"During this hour, one would have to wait for a tester at a certain place," said NADA legal advisor Anja Berninger at a workshop in Bonn.

"This rule only applies to the country's top athletes. Anyway they can be creative and factor it into their training schedule."

Bonn - Deutsche Telekom reported increased third quarter profits on Thursday despite falling revenue.

Net profit in the third quarter increased by 600 million euros (760 million dollars) to 895 million euros compared to the same period last year, Germany's biggest telecommunications company said.

Adjusted for special factors net profit increased by 12 per cent to 1.18 billion euros.

Despite a 1.5 per cent decline in revenues to 15.4 billion euros, Deutsche Telekom chief executive Rene Obermann said the company had been "relatively resistant" to the global economic slowdown so far.