Agence France-Presse: The years-long quest for a universal pact to avert catastrophic climate change has neared the finish line with a draft agreement completed in Paris. After nearly two weeks of tough haggling between bureaucrats and ministers from around the world, French and UN officials have completed a line-by-line edit of an historic agreement that seeks to slow global warming and ease its impacts. 'We have a text to present,' an official in the office of Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who presides over the...