In the future, all those DVDs you buy could be made from air pollution. If plans to remove carbon dioxide from smokestacks succeed, the gas could be harnessed and turned into plastic products, new research claims.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Kenya’s feuding parties on Monday to hurry up with a pact to end a post-election crisis that has killed 1,000 people and dented their nation’s global status. “The time for a political...