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• NKorea says US, other parties slow on nuclear pact (AP)
  

  AP - North Korea said Friday it will not take further steps to dismantle its nuclear program until the U.S. and its other negotiating partners award fuel oil and political benefits promised under an aid-for-disarmament deal.

  
  

• France to build second new-generation nuclear reactor (AP)
  

  AP - France will build a second new-generation nuclear reactor, President Nicolas Sarkozy said Thursday, pledging a "new industrial revolution" in an era in which fossil fuels have grown too expensive.

  
  

• Brown urges G8 to speed efforts on aid, climate change (AFP)
  

  AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged leading world powers to pick up the pace on aid and tackling climate change despite economic woes in an interview Saturday ahead of next week's G8 summit.

  
  

• Indigenous people urge G8 action on climate change (AFP)
  

  AFP - Indigenous people from around the world on Friday called on leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations to think about them by taking action on climate change at their summit next week.

  
  

• Australia needs carbon trading to fight climate change: study (AFP)
  

  AFP - A major climate change report for Australia's government on Friday recommended the rapid introduction of an emissions trading scheme to curb greenhouse gases and warned that delay could be disastrous.

  
  

• Only seven years left for global warming target: UN panel chief (AFP)
  

  AFP - The head of the UN's Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe.

  
  

• Maple, Ash Baseball Bats May Strike Out
  

  The talk turns to baseball bats — including whether maple bats should be benched, and how a tiny bug may throw the bat-making industry a curve ball.

• New Way To Land Planes May Save Fuel
  

  A new style of landing called "continuous descent" involves the plane flying straight. Alex Kingsbury, a reporter with U.S. News and World Report, says delivery firm UPS has saved 50 gallons of jet fuel per landing by using the system on its planes.