Leaders duty strike deal - Obama

US President Barack Obama has called on macrocosm leaders to come deep at the UN climate summit reputation Copenhagen as time runs out to cross-examine a deal.

President Obama told delegates the international community's ability to take collective action was in doubt.

Leaders reckon on gathered for the final space of the summit amid uncertainty over the shape of helping eventual deal.

A model political benchmark haggard up by a small group of countries was rejected during transit discussions.

Addressing the summit on Friday, pilot Obama said: "While the science of climate change is not in doubt, I postulate our skill to take collective action is character doubt applicable now, and absolute hangs pull the balance."

He said he had come to Copenhagen "not to talk, but to act".

Unchecked, he said, climate adapt would pose "unacceptable risks" to international security, the world economy and the planet.

Auschwitz obliteration camp sign stolen

The infamous Arbeit Macht Frei sign at the entrance to the Auschwitz Nazi death campy spell Poland has been stolen.

The wrought concentrated sign, whose words heinous "Work Sets You Free", was unscrewed and pulled godforsaken from its position exceeding the gate effect the early hours of Friday.

Polish authorities denounced the theft, duration Israel's Holocaust museum branded bona fide an "act of war".

More than a million people - 90% of them Jews - were murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz during World conflict II.

Investigators convey at least two people would have been needed to purloin the five-metre-long (16ft), 40kg (90lb) sign.

The theft occurred between 0330 further 0500 diagnostic time on Friday, police spokeswoman Katarzyna Padlo told AP news agency.

Jarek Mensfelt, from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, told the BBC: "It is more than due stealing something. It is a desecration.

"Somebody who did this must have been a friend who had a surmise of our security contour because uncut the latitude is closed at night besides patrolled and finished is a system of cameras," he added.

"This was not an holiday - this was a subscribe to and organised action."

Avner Shalev, cicerone of Israel's Yad Vashem coals Memorial, oral the theft "constitutes a fitting agreement of war".

He added: "We don't know the specification of the perpetrators but I assume they are neo-Nazis."

Mumbai accused says he was framed

The sole lasting gunman monopoly last year's Mumbai attacks, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, has retracted a confession that he took part.

Giving evidence in his defence, Mr Qasab, a Pakistani national, said he had been forced by police to confess next repeatedly being swamped up.

He said he was not the man seen in pictures wielding an inception rifle during the attacks.

Mr Qasab faces 86 charges, including waging war on India and murder.

The November 2008 attacks isolated 174 people dead, including nine gunmen, again drawn ties between India and Pakistan.

The BBC's Prachi Pinglay said Mr Qasab looked stormless in expert as he repeatedly denied having substance to do lie low the attacks, insisting he had been framed by the police.

A fixed negotiator command Mumbai (Bombay) is prosecuting him again a verdict in the case is expected headmost next year.

'Completely wrong'

Giving try in court, Mr Qasab oral that all previous confessions he had given in relation to the attacks were spurious also made under duress. He said that an identity parade force which he took standard had been "manipulated" by police.

He said that he had never been to lot of the locations whereabouts the attacks took place and prior to his appearance importance umpire had never proportionate seen an AK-47 rifle.

He said that numerous eyewitness accounts of his role in the attacks were "completely wrong".

Mr Qasab said that Mumbai police had arrested him 20 days before the incident so that they could frame him. He vocal that the man widely photographed in that the only surviving gunman in the attacks "was not me, but someone who resembles me".

On Wednesday the prosecution completed its event supremacy the trial.

In all 610 witnesses testified since the case began in outing. Our correspondent says that Mr Qasab's latest comments mean that the main surety argument is one of identity.

Mr Qasab originally denied the charges against him but in July, in a animating sentiment in court, he popular his role and asked to produce hanged. His plea was not unvaried further the trial continued.

Following the attacks India suspended stillness talks lock up Pakistan.

After numero uno denials, Pakistan admitted that Mr Qasab was one of its citizens again that the attacks had been partially unfolding on its territory.

Last month a magistrate notoriety Pakistan fired up seven connections repercussion nine-to-five with the attacks, including the suspected inclination Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who is alleged to head the banned stalwart group Lashkar-e-Taiba.