WORLD NEWS SUMMARY
	US promoting international environment project The United States is hosting a major international conference today, at which it hopes to create a global system to process information about environmental change.
	BA earnings nosedive One of the world's leading airlines, British Airways, has revealed a record quarterly loss of seventy-three million dollars for the first three months of the financial year.
	US soldier killed near Baqubah, Iraq The United States military in Iraq says one of its soldiers has been shot dead in a small-arms attack on an American base some eighty kilometres north-east of Baghdad.
	US negotiator condemns North Korea The United States' senior arms control negotiator, John Bolton, says North Korea has accelerated its nuclear weapons programme over the past year.
	Philippine president warns coup threat continues The president of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo, has said that a plot against her government which resulted in an unsuccessful but bloodless mutiny on Sunday has not yet ended.
	Peru requests extradition of Fujimori Peru has handed the Japanese government a request for the extradition of the former president, Alberto Fujimori.
	Verdict expected in Bosnia genocide trial The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is expected to deliver its verdict on Thursday on a Bosnian Serb doctor accused of genocide during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.