SYDNEY (Reuters) - Landmarks such as Sydney's Opera House, Beijing's Forbidden City and Taiwan's Taipei 101 office tower temporarily went dark on Saturday as nations dimmed the lights for Earth Hour 2010 to call for action on climate change. The symbolic one-hour switch-off, first held in Sydney in 2007, has become an annual global event and organizers World ...

Iconic New York City skyscrapers the Empire State and the Chrysler Building, along with landmarks from the Eiffel Tower to Sydney harbor went dark for an hour Saturday to raise awareness over the fight against climate change. The tallest building in North America also turned its exterior lights off along with more than 200 buildings in downtown Chicago for Earth ...

Europe's best known landmarks — including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben and Rome's Colosseum — fell dark Saturday, following Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Forbidden City in joining a global climate change protest, as lights were switched off across the world to ...

Monuments from Sydney's Opera House to Delhi's Red Fort went dark on Saturday for Earth Hour, a global power switch-off aimed at revitalising efforts against climate change. Ferry horns blared across Sydney harbour in a noisy start to the energy-saving event, which is supported by 4,000 cities in a record 125 countries and includes 1,200 landmarks ...

The white-shelled roof of the Sydney Opera House fell dark Saturday night, one of the first landmarks to turn out the lights in an hour-long gesture to be repeated by millions of people around the world who are calling for a binding pact ...

An Australian town is set to ban bottled water over concerns about its environmental impact, in what is believed to be a world first. Bundanoon, a picturesque rural town with a population of just 2,000, was expected to vote heavily in favour of the move with a show of hands at a public meeting later. "At the moment we ...

Major cities and world landmarks plunged into darkness Saturday as a symbolic energy-saving exercise unfolded across the globe, calling for action to avert potentially devastating climate change. The Egyptian pyramids at Giza, the Acropolis in Athens, Niagara Falls and the Eiffel Tower were set to switch off the electricity as countries worldwide prepared to join in "Earth Hour." In London ...

The waters of Sydney Harbour plunged into darkness on Saturday night, with the iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge killing their lights for an hour in a global call for swift action on climate change. Chatham Island, the largest of a tiny group of Pacific islands 800 kilometres (500 miles) southeast of New Zealand, unofficially began Earth Hour by switching ...

The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed Saturday as Sydney became the world's first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change. From the Great Pyramids ...

Millions of people across the globe will kill their lights for one hour this Saturday, in what organisers hope will be a resounding call for tough action on climate change. The waters of Sydney Harbour will be plunged into darkness for an hour from 8:30 pm (0930 GMT) as the iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge dim their lights ...