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International diplomats met two weeks ago at the UN Durban Climate Change Conference in South Africa to discuss a greenhouse gas reduction plan displaying no urgency to reach any meaningful agreement. Meanwhile, researchers at the American Geophysical Union annual meeting in San Francisco are reporting what many scientists have suspected for a long time but have been thus far not been able to prove convincingly that the world s sea level is likely to rise by at least 3 feet in the next 100 years

By Robert Birsel BANGKOK (Reuters) - Authorities in the Thai capital repaired a damaged flood gate on Wednesday that has become the focus of anger, fear and rivalry between arms of government battling the country's worst floods in decades. [More]

* Authorities fighting fire before counting the dead * Petrol spill from nearby fuel depot ignited fire By Richard Lough and James Macharia NAIROBI, Sept 12 (Reuters) - At least 75 bodies have been recovered after petrol that had spilled into an open sewer caught fire and sent a wave of flame through a densely populated slum in the Kenyan capital, police said on Monday. [More]

Groupon Delaying IPO . The high-profile initial public offering of Groupon is now thought to be delayed because of highly unfavorable market conditions.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Google Buys Motorola .

Rebellious groups Anonymous and LulzSec have formed a hacktivist Voltron to strike back against international police efforts to arrest their members; they've hacked the police. It's a war, now. And we've developed a war-room style video of LulzSec's history

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Groupon's Accounting Tricks . Groupon, reacting to pressure from the SEC is filing a new S1 form that ditches a controversial Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income accounting trick.

This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. China's Got A Self-Driving Car Too . China's been quietly developing its own near-production-grade fully autonomous car--something akin to Google's amazing effort --for some time, and just the other day they gave it a fully fledged test.

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors.

1. Facebook and Google haven't exactly seen eye to eye, and now the battle seems to have turned nasty : Facebook hired a PR firm to pitch anti-Google stories to newspapers, with an angle that Google was invading user privacy. Facebook has now, seemingly, confirmed it hired Burson-Marsteller, on the grounds it thinks Google's really invading privacy, and is unfairly using Facebook's data to fuel its own social ambitions.

Fifty years ago today Yuri Gagarin became the first human ever to journey into space --a symbolic moment that psychologically, technologically severed the human race into those who lived before that moment, and after it. Google has a special Doodle for the occasion, and Gagarin-mania and space-themed posts will be everywhere today. Poyekhali ! 1.