With climate negotiations apparently going nowhere - reports from Bonn this week indicate a whole new outbreak of division - is there scope in Rio for a Big Idea on energy?

BBC: Big summit seeks big idea

"A hundred dollars a month and going nowhere fast--there's a lot of people like that, " says Topol.

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Rather than leaving inebriated party-going males nowhere to relieve themselves on the streets, the government is considering installing hydraulic toilets in the roadways, which are remotely triggered at night to appear from their subterranean dwelling place.

ENGADGET: Urilift: the disappearing public urinal (and we do mean public)