NEW YORK — A woman died over the weekend of swine flu, becoming the city's second victim and the nation's 11th.

The woman, who was in her 50s, had other health conditions, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti said. No other information on her case was disclosed yesterday.

Assistant public school principal Mitchell Wiener, who died May 17, was the city's first death from the virus.

The World Health Organization, as of Friday, had tallied more than 12,000 swine flu cases worldwide, with more than half of them in the United States. It counted at least 86 deaths, with 75 of those in Mexico.

GORE PRODS CEOS ON GLOBAL WARMING

COPENHAGEN — Nobel Prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders yesterday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing greenhouse gases.

The CEOs of major world businesses began meeting in Copenhagen for the three-day World Business Summit on Climate Change. The conference is a precursor to the talks that will be held here in December to negotiate a new U.N.-brokered climate treaty that will succeed the Kyoto pact that expires in 2012.

Despite the global financial crisis, Gore said there was no time for delay in hashing out how to cut greenhouse gases.

"The clock is ticking, because Mother Nature does not do bailouts," Gore said.

TAMIL TIGERS CONFIRM LEADER'S DEATH

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Defeated Tamil Tiger rebels confirmed yesterday that their supreme leader was killed in the group's final battle against Sri Lankan troops.

The almost mythic commander, Velupillai Prabhakaran, led a terror-driven Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka for more than a quarter century. Last week the government declared it finally killed Prabhakaran and proclaimed victory against his Tamil Tigers, crushing the rebellion that the U.N. estimates cost 80,000 to 100,000 lives, but many Tamils didn't believe the claim.

The government also said it believes Prabhakaran's deputy and intelligence chief, Pottu Amman, was among the dead, but his body has not been identified.

PAKISTANI ARMY REPORTS GAINS ON TALIBAN

ISLAMABAD — The Taliban left so many mutilated bodies at the crossing — some hanging from trees with threatening notes — that Pakistanis in the Swat Valley's main town took to calling it "bloody intersection."

Yesterday, the army said that spot and seven other major crossings in Mingora were secured, part of street-by-street urban fighting whose success is considered critical to flushing out the militants from the valley as a whole.

The advances in Swat came as helicopter gunships pounded alleged militant hideouts in a nearby tribal region, killing at least 18 people, while police announced the arrest of a militant commander and six other Taliban fighters elsewhere in the northwest.

CHAUFFEUR SUSPENDED OVER BREACH CLAIMS

LONDON — A royal chauffeur was suspended yesterday over allegations he gave undercover reporters a tour of Queen Elizabeth II's luxury limousines and other sensitive areas of her Buckingham Palace home in exchange for money.

London police said they were examining the allegations and holding talks on security with staff at the London palace following reports of the breach.

The News of the World tabloid said two of its reporters, posing as wealthy Middle Eastern businessmen, were shown around secure areas of Buckingham Palace and allowed to sit inside Bentleys used by the royal family. The newspaper said it paid the chauffeur 1,000 pounds, or about $1,588, for the tour.

COMMUNIST LEADER SWORN IN AS NEPAL PM

KATMANDU, Nepal — Communist party leader Madhav Kumar Nepal was sworn in today as the country's prime minister and immediately took up the task of governing without the support of the nation's biggest party.

Parliament elected Nepal, chief of the Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist), over the weekend with the backing of 22 political parties and 350 members in the 601-seat parliament.

He now heads a broad coalition — but one that does not include the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), comprised of former communist rebels who gave up their armed revolt in 2006 to join a peace process.