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BREAKING NEWS: British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes is to lead the first team on foot across Antarctica during the southern winter.

The six-month expedition next year will see the group endure temperatures as low as -90C and is being called the Coldest Journey.

It will be 68-year-old Sir Ranulph's latest record attempt.
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2000: Lost most fingers on his left hand to frostbite during an unaided attempt to reach the North Pole - and carried out amputations himself using a fretsaw

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Nations must safeguard CDM and global carbon market to combat climate change

The panel wants its recommendations to be brought into effect by the Doha climate summit.
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Besides the chair Valli Moosa (South Africa) and the vice-chair Joan MacNaughton (UK), the other members of the high-level panel on the CDM policy dialogue are: Luciano Coutihno (Brazil), Maggie L. Fox (USA) [CEO of Al Gore's Climate Hoax Project], Ross Garnaut (Australia), Prodipto Ghosh (India), Yolanda Kakabadse (Ecuador), Margaret Mukahanana-Sangarwe (Zimbabwe), Paul Simpson (UK), Nobuo Tanaka (Japan) and Changhua Wu (China).

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no country is willing to abandon the goal of an international regime which will effectively combat dangerous climate change.