“In the spirit of the Kyoto accord, we agreed to dress more lightly.”
Japan’s finance minister, Sadakazu Tanigaki, on how government officials are helping to cut greenhouse emissions by taking off their jackets rather than turning up the air conditioning (The Times, London, 5 July)
“I came here in desperation and they have treated me like a king.”
Businessman Arthur Winiarski after travelling from his home in Poland to Beijing to undergo the world’s first officially licensed gene therapy for cancer (The Sunday Telegraph, London, 4 July)
“I thought that my team was playing tricks on me and showing me a simulation of the rings and…
