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Bangladesh: Large Fire Erupts at Chattogram Factory

A massive fire broke out around 2 p.m. Thursday, October 16 at the Adams Caps & Textiles Ltd factory in the Chattogram Export Processing Zone. Nineteen fire units, supported by the Navy, Air Force, Army, and police, worked for hours to control the blaze, which began in a warehouse on the sixth and seventh floors. No deaths were reported, though several workers suffered minor injuries while escaping. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

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France: Fire Breaks Out at Stadium in Paris Suburbs, Smoke Seen in Distance

Around 1 pm on Monday, May 12, a fire broke out at the Hunebelle stadium in the Paris suburb of Clamart, with smoke visible from the capital. Witnesses reported that two loud explosions were also heard. The Paris Police Prefecture stated that the explosions were due to gas cylinders at the construction site.

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Biodiversity conference in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Ryu Matsumoto (L), the chair of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, facilitates a plenary meeting, as Ahmed Djoghlaf (R), executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, looks on, on Oct. 29, 2010.

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Biodiversity conference in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Ryu Matsumoto (C), the chair of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, reacts after a plenary session breaks off for a recess on Oct. 29, 2010, as Ahmed Djoghlaf (R), executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, looks on.

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Ford at biodiversity conference in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - Hollywood star Harrison Ford (C) and Ahmed Djoghlaf (R), executive secretary of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, pose for a photo session in Nagoya on Oct. 28, 2010. Ford, an executive of the nongovernmental organization Conservation International, said he hopes that the United States will join the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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MISIA at COP10 conference

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese singer MISIA (R) speaks during a news conference in Nagoya on Oct. 18, 2010, as delegates opened the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP10, scheduled to run through Oct. 29 in the central Japan city. At left is Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

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Working group meeting on biodiversity ends divided

NAGOYA, Japan - Timothy Hodges (L) and Fernando Casas (C), who co-chaired a meeting of the Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, hold a press conference after the meeting with Ahmed Djoghlaf (R), the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on Oct. 16, 2010, in Nagoya. The industrialized and developing countries remained divided on how to share benefits from the use of genetic resources, ahead of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP10, which starts Oct. 18.

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Biodiversity talks

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano (R) and Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, shake hands as a meeting to discuss an international accord on compensation for damage to biological diversity and public health from genetically modified crops starts in Nagoya on Oct. 11, 2010. The session marks an official start of three-week biodiversity talks in the central Japanese city.

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COP 10 logo on JAL plane

TOKYO, Japan - Ahmed Djoghlaf, the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, poses near a logo of the upcoming ''COP 10'' convention on biological diversity printed on the fuselage of a Japan Airlines aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 29, 2010. The logo represents humans coexisting with various living organisms.

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Biodiversity pact

NAGOYA, Japan - Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf (L) gives a badge to Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura at city hall in Nagoya on Aug. 26, 2010. Djoghlaf visited the central Japan city as a biodiversity conference will be held in October.

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COP 10 logo on JAL plane

TOKYO, Japan - Ahmed Djoghlaf, the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, poses near a logo of the upcoming ''COP 10'' convention on biological diversity printed on the fuselage of a Japan Airlines aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport on Aug. 29, 2010. The logo represents humans coexisting with various living organisms. (Kyodo)

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Biodiversity pact

NAGOYA, Japan - Convention on Biological Diversity Executive Secretary Ahmed Djoghlaf (L) gives a badge to Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura at city hall in Nagoya on Aug. 26, 2010. Djoghlaf visited the central Japan city as a biodiversity conference will be held in October. (Kyodo)

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Ford at biodiversity conference in Japan

NAGOYA, Japan - Hollywood star Harrison Ford (C) and Ahmed Djoghlaf (R), executive secretary of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity, pose for a photo session in Nagoya on Oct. 28, 2010. Ford, an executive of the nongovernmental organization Conservation International, said he hopes that the United States will join the Convention on Biological Diversity. (Kyodo)

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MISIA at COP10 conference

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese singer MISIA (R) speaks during a news conference in Nagoya on Oct. 18, 2010, as delegates opened the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP10, scheduled to run through Oct. 29 in the central Japan city. At left is Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. (Kyodo)

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Working group meeting on biodiversity ends divided

NAGOYA, Japan - Timothy Hodges (L) and Fernando Casas (C), who co-chaired a meeting of the Working Group on Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, hold a press conference after the meeting with Ahmed Djoghlaf (R), the executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on Oct. 16, 2010, in Nagoya. The industrialized and developing countries remained divided on how to share benefits from the use of genetic resources, ahead of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, or COP10, which starts Oct. 18. (Kyodo)

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Biodiversity talks

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Michihiko Kano (R) and Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, shake hands as a meeting to discuss an international accord on compensation for damage to biological diversity and public health from genetically modified crops starts in Nagoya on Oct. 11, 2010. The session marks an official start of three-week biodiversity talks in the central Japanese city. (Kyodo)

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Biodiversity chief seeks Nagoya protocol on genetic resource use

TOKYO, Japan - Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on March 2, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Biodiversity conference in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Ryu Matsumoto (L), the chair of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, facilitates a plenary meeting, as Ahmed Djoghlaf (R), executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, looks on, on Oct. 29, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Biodiversity conference in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - Japanese Environment Minister Ryu Matsumoto (C), the chair of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, reacts after a plenary session breaks off for a recess on Oct. 29, 2010, as Ahmed Djoghlaf (R), executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity, looks on. (Kyodo)