Independent (UK): Ethiopia, one of Africa’s poorest countries, last night put forward a radical multibillion-dollar plan to break the continuing deadlock at the UN climate talks in Copenhagen — which was immediately taken up by Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy. The proposal, from Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-standing ruler who is now one of Africa’s elder statesmen, concerned one of the crucial sticking points in the negotiations for a new treaty to fight global warming, which have to end on Friday …