The world's major economic powers have come a step nearer patching up differences on environmental policy which prompted the humiliating collapse of key talks in November.

BBC: G8 progress on climate change

But the author of the Business Insider post, Nicholas Carlson, rightly asserts in the very post upon which this house of cards is built that while a Facebook IPO is clearly getting nearer, it is doubtful it will come as soon as rumor mill suggests.

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