Newsweek:
The 192 countries flocking to Copenhagen next month won't reach consensus on climate change. That won't stop them from acting alone.
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The Guardian:
Social networks that want to dominate a corner of cyberspace should remember AOLLIKE MANY people in his business, the technology publisher Tim O'Reilly is a heavy user of the Twitter microblogging service. He also has a Facebook account. To save effort, he has arranged things so that his Twitter posts are automatically forw (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Ministers refuse to release details of five incidents last yearThe government is refusing to provide details on five separate security breaches at Britain's nuclear power stations last year.The breaches have prompted accusations that ministers are suppressing damaging information at a time when they are attempting to sell t (Read More)
The Guardian:
M&S is one of the few remaining national treasures, which is why its new chief will find running it a high-wire actWhen Marc Bolland moves from Wm Morrison to take up the reins as new chief executive of M&S in February, he'd better be prepared for a level of exposure that he won't have experienced in Bradford. No disrespect (Read More)
The Guardian:
Retail boss talks candidly to Kirsty Young and reveals he can't live without a power showerHe's worried you will think he's a wimp but this retail Robinson Crusoe couldn't live without a power shower and a set of white fluffy towels.Sir Stuart Rose's turn today as a Desert Island Discs castaway provides some insight into hi (Read More)
L.A. Times - Latin America:
The Colombian city of Cartagena is trying to plan ahead as scientists say cities nearer the equator, where temperatures are already higher, are at greater risk if global warming isn't checked. The effect of climate change is anything but hypothetical to retired (Read More)
Reuters: Environment:
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark said on Sunday 65 world leaders had agreed to attend a U.N. conference in Copenhagen in December that will try to clinch a new global climate deal.
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UK News from Times Online:
BRITAIN should brace itself for more tropical-style deluges of the kind that wreaked havoc on Cockermouth, according to climate experts. (Read More)
L.A. Times - Technology News:
One side sees hacked e-mail as a sign of a 'Warmist Conspiracy.' The other says it's being taken out of context. Analysts don't expect it to have much effect on the Senate greenhouse gas bill. Is it a "Warmist Conspiracy," or a case of an (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
The latest in our series of technological dilemmas involves an anonymous blogger who strikes a bit too close to homeFor some time you've been watching the progress of a notorious - but anonymous - blogger who has been writing posts that have ridiculed and embarrassed organisations you don't like, with exposes of bad corpora (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman is worried that America is producing "sub-optimal solutions" to big problems like global warming, an education system in decline and a weak economy.The author of Hot, Flat, Crowded appeared on The Charlie Rose Show on Friday night to discuss President Obama's recent trip to Asia, (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
If the Tory leader wins the next election, he faces a media battle between News Corp and Google which could split his inner circleIt's the war for Cameron's ear. Greeting David Cameron, should he win the keys to 10 Downing Street next year, could be the mother of dust-ups between Google and News Corporation, two of the wor (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
World ATP Tour Finals come to the former Millennium Dome and its owners are planning for more to comeSave for a brief burst of popularity for ice hockey in the years that followed the second world war, British sports fans have never taken to watching their heroes perform indoors. Despite, or perhaps because of, our obsessio (Read More)
The Guardian:
Halfway through a 50-year project to raise football's profile in America – and on the day David Beckham plays in the MLS Cup final – the men in charge are delightedThe American investors who are investing abroad should invest here." So said Sepp Blatter last summer when the Fifa president visited the United States and saw t (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Nick Cohen suggests that Nacro, the crime reduction charity, no longer criticises government policy because it "has become dependent on the state" ("How the government buys the silence of charities", Comment). He argues that participation in private sector bids to run prisons prevents Nacro from arguing that fewer people sh (Read More)