Beef prices were already rising because ranchers sold off a lot of cattle during last year's dry weather.

The Insiders: Another UN global climate warming report, AR5, may fuel Democrats’ defeat

SURE: THE UN REPORT MAY NOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY ALL, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO DO NOT WISH TO UNDERSTAND IT

By Ed Rogers, Updated: August 5, 2013

CORRECTED AUGUST 6, 2013 by GUS

"It used to be the most beautiful place on Earth. I thought that I'd die down there." The wistful words of Mike Schaff crackle through the co-pilot headphones as he banks his single-propeller plane to make one last circle over the small jumble of homes and canals deep in the verdant bayou country of Louisiana that he has called home all his life.

(This is a repeat of a Gus article on climate change and the dangerous denialists...)

News Corporation chief Rupert Murdoch says he was "frustrated" and "overly emotional" when he was secretly recorded describing the police investigation into alleged wrongdoings at his publications as incompetent.

Security forces in Brazil have banned masks at Pope Francis's opening Mass at the Roman Catholic World Youth Day festival in Rio de Janeiro next week.