DETROIT (Reuters) – Federal regulators said they were looking into a report of another runaway Toyota Prius, this one in Westchester County, New York, where police said a woman pulling out of a driveway zoomed across a busy street and into a stone wall.

The 56-year-old driver sustained nonlife-threatening injuries on Tuesday when the 2005 Prius she was operating knocked some large boulders from the wall after the crash, said Capt. Anthony Marraccini, acting police chief in Harrison, New York, which is about 25 miles northeast of New York City.

"Toyota has expressed interest in taking the vehicle," Marraccini said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday.

Toyota Motor Corp officials could not immediately be reached for a comment.

It was the second straight

PARIS (AFP) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday demanded reforms of the United Nations and urged negotiations under a small group of countries to accelerate efforts to fight climate change.

Sarkozy, opening a one-day conference on deforestation, stood by the UN, saying there was "no alternative strategy" to a forum that gave all nations, rich and poor, a voice in a global arena.

But he said changes to the UN were way overdue.

"The UN is absolutely indispensable and yet at the same time, it's not working," said Sarkozy. "(...) I am certain that we need to reform the United Nations, otherwise the United Nations will end up in an impasse."

Reiterating previous ideas, Sarkozy proposed overhauling

THE HAGUE (AFP) – The city of Amsterdam is to be prosecuted over the dumping of toxic waste by a ship in Ivory Coast in 2006, the Supreme Court has ruled in a decision made available Wednesday.

"The Supreme Court refers the case back to the Amsterdam district court ... to be considered anew," said the judgment, overturning earlier decisions to dismiss the case against the city.

In August 2006, the Probo Koala ship, chartered by Dutch-based multinational oil trading firm Trafigura, dumped deadly caustic soda and petroleum residues on city waste tips in Abidjan, having been prevented from offloading in Amsterdam.

Dutch prosecutors have sought to hold the city responsible for "ridding itself" of what turned out to be dangerous waste being offloaded from the Probo Koala in Amsterdam -- by ordering

PARIS – Rich nations must contribute more to a climate change fund and help fight deforestation, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in opening a conference Thursday on saving the world's forests — a key defense against global warming.

Ministers from some 40 nations were attending the one-day Paris meeting, including Indonesia and other heavily wooded countries in the Amazon and Congo river basins.

Efforts to halt deforestation, one of the culprits in climate change, have been bogged along with the wider goal of reaching a legally binding global agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions while helping poor nations adapt to and cope with climate change.

Thursday's meeting, to be followed by a May conference in Oslo, was focused on developing forest-preserving measures agreed on in principle at the last U.N. climate conference in

NAIROBI (AFP) – Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki thanked Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito Thursday for his country's support in programmes to combat climate change, the government said.

The prince arrived in Nairobi late Wednesday for a three-day trip that follows a visit to Ghana.

Kibaki hailed Japan's "continued financial and technical support" notably in programmes to combat climate change, a statement from his office said.

After meeting with Kibaki, the prince visited a Japanese school in the outskirts of Nairobi.

Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka said when he welcomed the prince Wednesday that Japan was a "true development partner".

"There are many projects that the