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December 2009: a strange spiral appears in the sky above northern Norway
What is it? The answer is a Russian submarine-launched rocket that went wrong. The rocket propellant is firing out on one side, causing the rocket to spin.

 

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Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri with their Nobel Prizes
Al Gore notches up another award with his co-scientist Rajendra Pachauri, Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.