U.S. Study Projects How 'Unequivocal Warming' Will Change Americans' Lives

U.S. Study Projects How 'Unequivocal Warming' Will Change Americans' Lives

By LAUREN MORELLO
June 17, 2009

Climate change is already reshaping the United States, according to a new federal report that predicts global warming could have serious consequences for how Americans live and work.



New report stresses immediacy of global warming

By Jennifer A. Dlouhy
June 17, 2009

Top government scientists on Tuesday warned that climate change already is wreaking devastating changes on the United States, threatening the Southwest with blistering heat, the Atlantic Coast with dangerous hurricanes and the Midwest with flooding.



FWC announces publication of Climate Change Summit Report

Jun 17, 2009

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) hosted “Florida’s Wildlife: On the front line of climate change” summit in Orlando last year and recently published a report on the event.



White House Issues Strong Warnings in Environmental Report

17 June 2009

The effects of global warming are here and are causing major damage, stated the first climate study from Barack Obama's administration in the strongest stance on climate change ever to be issued from the White House.



Serious effects of global warming worsening, White House report warns

June 17, 2009

Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, the first climate report from Barack Obama's presidency warns. The language on climate change is the strongest ever to come out of the White House.



Scientists: Global warming is real, and it is only getting worse

By David A. Fahrenthold
June 17, 2009

WASHINGTON — Man-made climate change is already lifting temperatures, increasing rainfall and raising sea levels around the United States — and its effects are on track to get much worse in the coming century, according to a new report released by federal scientists.



Strong words on climate change

By Seth Borenstein
June 17, 2009

WASHINGTON - Harmful effects from global warming are already here and worsening, warns the first climate report from Barack Obama’s presidency in the strongest language on climate change ever to come out of the White House.

BlackBerry Tour: Verizon Goes Bold

BlackBerry Tour: Verizon Goes Bold

UPDATE: Sprint has announced that it will offer the Tour for $200 after instant and mail-in rebate, with a two-year service agreements. With all the fuss about the Apple iPhone 3G S things have been a bit quiet in BlackBerry land. But the folks from Waterloo (Ont.) are making a bit of a splash June 17—the day the version 3.0 iPhone software goes live, with the announcement of the BlackBerry Tour 9630.



RIM Unveils Blackberry Tour For Verizon Wireless, Sprint

By Roger Cheng
JUNE 16, 2009

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Research in Motion Ltd. (RIMM) on Tuesday unveiled the Blackberry Tour for Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), breaking its pattern of releasing devices with an exclusive wireless carrier partner.



BlackBerry Tour smartphone announced; Sprint prices it at $200 after rebates

By Matt Hamblen
June 16, 2009

BlackBerry Tour smartphone, which Sprint Nextel Inc. separately said it will sell later this summer for $200 with a two-year service agreement and rebates.



New BlackBerry Tour Caters to Globetrotting Users

By Richard Adhikari
06/16/09

Research In Motion's newest BlackBerry is built for the world-traveling pro, boasting support for enough cellular standards to get a signal in almost any country. One standard it does not support, however, is WiFi. Verizon and Sprint will debut the phone, but neither the carriers nor Research In Motion would commit to a release date.



Blackberry Tour gets 3G, but no Wi-Fi

Waterloo (ON) – Research in Motion (RIM) today announced the new Tour smartphone, which looks like the CDMA sibling to the GSM-based Curve 8900. Yet, the phones are very different in their hardware and software specifications and it is once again that forces buyers to make compromises as Wi-Fi is not supported.



Make No Mistake: RIM's BlackBerry Is The One To Beat

June 17, 2009

Research In Motion on Tuesday introduced BlackBerry Tour 9360, a 3G BlackBerry smartphone that represents the latest in RIM's dominant BlackBerry handhelds. And let's take a moment to remember that "dominant" is no misnomer: while the new BlackBerry device's unveiling didn't have the crackle and snap of recent announcements by Apple, with its iPhone 3G S, and Palm, with its much-awaited Palm Pre, BlackBerry and RIM are currently the leaders of the pack -- enjoying as much as a 55.3 percent smartphone market share in North America, according to one researcher.



New BlackBerry Tour joins smartphone fray

By David Goldman
June 17, 2009

Research In Motion unveils new high-end BlackBerry for Verizon and Sprint, aimed at international travelers. The smartphone wars are heating up with recent launches of the Apple iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre, and Research In Motion is determined to stay in the game.

Student on Trial in Italy Claims Police Pressure

Student on Trial in Italy Claims Police Pressure

By RACHEL DONADIO
June 13, 2009

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Amanda Knox testified for a second day in the murder trial of Meredith Kercher at the Perugia courthouse on Saturday.

PERUGIA, Italy — An American student on trial here in the murder of her housemate held to her version of events under cross-examination on Saturday, saying that “confusion” and a “crescendo” of police pressure led her to wrongly accuse a man of the crime.

Amanda Knox tells of Meredith Kercher’s ‘yucky’ death

John Follain in Perugia
June 14, 2009

AMANDA KNOX yesterday startled the Italian court trying her for the murder of Meredith Kercher by saying the English student's death was “yucky, disgusting” and comparing it to crimes in CSI, the popular US television series.



Knox hits at police 'crescendo' of pressure

Sunday 14 June 2009

Amanda Knox, the American student charged with murdering her British roommate in November 2007, told a court in Perugia, Italy, yesterday that a "crescendo" of police pressure led her to finger an innocent man in the case.



How Strong is the Evidence Against Amanda Knox?

By Tiffany Sharples / Seattle
Sunday, Jun. 14, 2009

Defendant Amanda Knox of the United States, stands in court in Perugia, Italy as she faces a charge of murder.



Meredith Kercher murder trial: Amanda Knox a victim of 'character assassination'

By Nick Squires in Perugia
13 Jun 2009

Amanda Knox who claims she is a victim of 'character assassination' Photo: GETTY

Amanda Knox's friends and family have blamed the media for "18 months of character assassination" on the young American woman, who is on trial for murdering her British flatmate, Meredith Kercher.



Murder of Meredith Kercher

The body of Meredith Kercher was discovered by Italian police at the cottage that she shared with other students in Perugia on November 2, 2007. The 21-year-old British student, who was part of a university exchange programme, was found lying partially clothed under a duvet in her bedroom. Her windpipe had been crushed and throat partially slashed.



Video: Amanda Knox Says Italian Police Pressured Her