Breaking News: Leaders reach deal on climate change

Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:57:07 -0600

COPENHAGEN (AP) - The United States and four other countries,
including China, have reached a climate agreement that includes a way
to verify reductions of heat-trapping gases, a senior administration
official said. President Obama called the deal - the details of which
were still emerging - a "meaningful and unprecedented breakthrough."
But he added that "a fundamental deadlock in perspectives" prevented a
more substantial agreement