"The Human Rights Council mandates for the report specifically targeted Israeli actions, ignoring,ignoring the deliberate Hamas attacks on civilians that provoked Israel's self-defense in Operation Cast Lead .

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

But climate change skeptics have seized on the recent theft of thousands of private e-mail messages from computer servers at a British climate research center to cast doubt on whether global warming is as serious as it has been made out to be.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09