TechCrunch:
As we prepare for our next RealTime CrunchUp on November 20th in San Francisco, we're seeing if anything an acceleration of the phenomenon known as RealTime. Startups, cloud platform vendors, the open standards community, and virtually every software and hardware category are being refreshed and reinvented in the new model. (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Al Gore was born to be the most powerful man on Earth, but fell just short of his political destiny. Can the former law-maker now win his place in history as the man who helped save the planet?Perhaps the best way to understand the extraordinary transformation of Al Gore is to study the changing rhetoric of his enemies. A m (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Latest medical reports say Ronaldo will be out for three weeks• Queiroz wants forward to help - 'even if only for a few minutes'Carlos Queiroz intends to call up Cristiano Ronaldo for Portugal's upcoming World Cup play-offs against Bosnia-Herzegovina, despite the latest medical reports from Real Madrid saying the forward (Read More)
The Guardian:
Gianfranco Fini is caught between Berlusconi's waywardness and unreconstructed racists within the Lega Nord"We must cleanse our streets of the black-skinned, the yellow-skinned, the Roma … I would have all the immigrants put on file, one by one. Unfortunately, this is not allowed by the law. They are the carriers of all sor (Read More)
The Guardian:
The prime minister tells G20 taxpayers must be protected from bearing the cost of failure by world's banksThe prime minister, Gordon Brown, has called for a new "economic and social contract" with the world's banks to ensure that the cost of their failure would never again be borne by taxpayers.Addressing a G20 meeting in S (Read More)
The Guardian:
Thomas Reeve, 28, killed in Amarillo as shots are fired at drinkers during robberyA British tourist has been shot dead in a bar in Texas. Thomas Reeve, 28, was killed in the city of Amarillo when shots were fired at several drinkers, the Foreign Office confirmed.The attack happened at the Spotted Pony Lounge in the town at (Read More)
The Guardian:
The president of Brazil stands for democracy, and for the poor. These are still valuable qualities in the 21st centuryPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who has received the Chatham House prize for 2009 , is one of the few world politicians to have ridden out the global economic crisis with an enhanced reputatio (Read More)
The Guardian:
Twenty years on Europe and the US have squandered their victory, Russia is mired in depression and China has new powerThose who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happened – the night the Berlin wall came down.History in the making is all too often tragic. Only rarel (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Father gunned down on visit to see the town made famous by the hit songThe family of a British tourist who was shot dead while on a road trip across the United States said last night that he was "just in the wrong place, at the wrong time" when he was killed during a robbery at a Texas bar.Thomas Reeve, a father-of-one who (Read More)
The Guardian:
Danny Jordaan says England's World Cup bid needs a figureheadAccording to the man who won the 2010 World Cup for South Africa, England will need to make much better use of David Beckham in order to succeed in their bid to host the 2018 event. Danny Jordaan, chief executive of South Africa 2010, said: "David Beckham is quite (Read More)
The Guardian:
Suppressed report reveals archaeological treasures were dug up after Gulf warA secret report on the chequered history of priceless Aramaic bowls loaned to a leading university has exposed an apparent attempt to cover up UK academic connections to a potentially deadly trade in stolen Iraqi antiquities.The findings of the stu (Read More)
The Guardian:
The England manager will not take injured players to the World Cup and that means Rio Ferdinand, tooFor a number of England's so-called golden generation, convincing Fabio Capello of their credentials for a ticket to South Africa is more about fitness than flair. He needs no persuading about what Rio Ferdinand, Michael Owen (Read More)
The Guardian:
A clutch of new films will cement Matt Damon's reputation as the hit of his generation. But that won't change this most reserved and politically committed of actors. Vanessa Thorpe reportsRunners taking part in the annual Miami Triathlon this time last year were surprised to spot a familiar face crossing the finishing line. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing them togetherWhen I began visiting Rwanda, in 1995, a year after the genocide, the country was still (Read More)
The Guardian:
1950s Belfast bomb campaign was scrapped to avoid violent backlash against CatholicsThe IRA abandoned extensive plans to blow up the BBC, the Stormont parliament and a Royal Navy station in Belfast during the 1950s because they believed that it would provoke a violent unionist backlash.More than a decade before the Provisio (Read More)