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After several rounds of last-minute diplomacy at the climate change talks in Copenhagen, President Obama announced that he had reached a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough" with the key developing nations of China, India, South Africa and Brazil. The countries say they will work to limit global warming to no more than a 2-degree Celsius increase over the next decade.

After several frantic rounds of last-minute diplomacy at the climate change talks in Copenhagen, President Obama reached a "meaningful agreement" with the key developing nations of China, India, and South Africa that could salvage a deal to reduce global climate emissions, a senior Obama administration official told reporters in Copenhagen.

As hopes faded for a strong climate deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Thursday the U.S. would join others in raising $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poorer nations cope with global warming.

President Obama told top bankers Monday to explore "every responsible way" to increase lending, saying they were obliged to help repair the American economy after being saved by the taxpayer-funded bailout.

A science delegation from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen presenting findings on the threat climate change poses to the world's oceans.

Saudi Arabia's strategy on climate change has long been to deny the science. Saudis fear that reducing emissions will reduce oil exports and be catastrophic for their economy.

Saudi Arabia is a major dissident at the global climate conference in Copenhagen, where representatives of more than 190 countries are trying to agree on a new international initiative to combat climate change.

In Oslo, the president says the U.S. must remain a standard-bearer in the conduct of war.

The stakes are considered low for President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Thursday. But it's still a tricky proposition for a president who just committed some 30,000 U.S. troops to battle. He'll be feted abroad, even as Americans are squeezed economically at home.

Negotiators at Copenhagen know exactly what they need to figure out: who has to cut greenhouse gas emissions and by what amount — and how much rich countries should pay developing ones to not pollute the atmosphere. But the devil is in the details, so here's a look at what those details are.