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A UN report on climate change shows that the window to meet the goal of 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit is narrowing, a senior UN climate official says. The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "sets out in very, very stark terms where we are, but it also signals that there is still an opportunity with significant global effort to meet that 1.5 goal," says Simon Stiell, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). SOUNDBITE
Demonstrators gather in front of the Paris City Hall to take part in worldwide demonstrations against what campaigners say is a lack of urgency to address global warming at a crunch UN climate summit. IMAGES
Pro-democracy activists kicked off three days of rallies at Hong Kong's airport on Friday, hoping to win international support from arriving passengers as the protests that have rocked the city enter a third month. IMAGES
A hundred protesters block peacefully a street in Hamburg, chanting "No-G20", on the first day of the summit. IMAGES
A group of Bernie Sanders delegates staged a protest inside Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center on the final day of the Democratic National Convention. Scores of supporters worse glow-in-the-dark T-shirts, waved protest signs and shouted during the speeches despite the fact that Bernie Sanders has publicly endorsed Hillary and urged his supporters to vote for her in the general election to prevent a Trump presidency