But EDF reports that the Chinese company has stopped contributing additional financing to the joint project - which has been running over budget - and, as a result
"They can fly higher and farther, last longer, hit harder. They can pierce the hardest armour of the human heart."I don't know if they can change the world, but they changed us."
Each band member gave their own acceptance speech, with drummer Larry Mullen, Jr, recalling the group's first rejection letter, from the head of CBS Records, Muff Winwood."He heard the song and offered us a record deal, but only if the band fired the drummer," he said."I humbly concede that on every musical break, I may have counted to three instead of four - but from where I'm standing right now having trouble counting makes some of us look like musical geniuses."
And as they played an acoustic version of Sunday Bloody Sunday, Bono called for peace in the Middle East."Hamas release the hostages. Stop the war," he said. "Israel be released from Benjamin Netanyahu.
"All of you protect our aid workers, they are the best of us."
The Killers won the special international prize, with Bruce Springsteen handing over the trophy to frontman Brandon Flowers.One of those is Longyearbyen, the world's northernmost town, and just outside the settlement, in a decommissioned coal mine, is The Arctic World Archive (AWA) - an underground vault for data.
Customers pay to have their data stored on film and kept in the vault, for potentially hundreds of years."This is a place to make sure that information survives technology obsolescence, time and ageing. That's our mission," says founder Rune Bjerkestrand, leading the way inside.
Switching on head-torches we descended a dark passageway and followed the old rail tracks 300 metres into the mountainside, until we reached the archive's metal door.Inside the vault, stands a shipping container stacked with silver packets, each containing reels of film, on which the data is stored.