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Nicolas Sarkozy (Image: AFP)
Sarkozy backs calls to keep Kyoto
French President Nicolas Sarkozy backs calls by poor nations to keep the Kyoto Protocol, breaking away from the EU's position.
The talks in quotes
Richard Black: Break a deal?
Q&A: Copenhagen summit

Euro notes (BBC) UK science faces funding cutbacks
The Science and Technology Facilities Council announces cuts in research funding that critics say could damage UK science.

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The coldest place in the Solar System yet measured by a spacecraft has been found to be on our Moon.

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