THIS WEEK'S GLOBAL OUTLOOK
NEWS: This week’s global outlook reports on Google’s real-time search; Obama’s efforts to spur jobs; the UK’s severe flooding; Europe’s road trains; and a victory claimed by both candidates in Romania. Click Read More for the full report.
The Weekly Outlook is an editorial briefing for wejetset’s online magazine. Each week we scan international news and aggregate the stories that will likely impact their respective region and possibly the world. From economic issues to politics, we strive to deliver news links that will be useful to our readers as they navigate their local and global spaces.
More exciting developments from the Google labs. Google added a new feature to keep up with the real time nature of citizen journalism. “Google announced Monday the fruits of its earlier deal with Twitter, showing off how it has decided to present real-time Internet content within search results.”
With a buffet of issues to tackle, Barack Obama prepares his plan against joblessness. “Tomorrow President Barack Obama will lay out policy proposals to combat double-digit unemployment in a speech tackling an economic problem that has become a political drain on his young administration.”
Severe flooding hits the UK. Time Magazine has an informative piece on the events, “Emergency rescue workers float past a ‘Merry Christmas’ sign as they try and rescue residents stranded by floods in Cockermouth, in Cumbria, northwest England. Water levels reached just over 8 ft. (2.5 m) as more than 200 people have been evacuated. The Environment Agency said the scale of the flooding was unprecedented.”
Imagine your car being a part of a road train. Well it might happen. “It goes by the name ‘Sartre,’ but it has nothing to do with existentialism and just a little bit to do with exits. The Safe Road Trains for the Environment program is a three-year European study centering on the creation of ‘platoons’ of drivers behind a lead vehicle on the highway. It involves wiring cars to speak to each other, and to a lead vehicle – the platoon commander – behind which up to eight cars could follow in automated bliss.”
Who won!? “Both sides claimed victory in Romania’s presidential election in a race that appeared too close to call Sunday night. Mircea Geoana, Romania’s former foreign minister and the leader of the leftist Social Democrats, declared himself the winner after several exit polls showed him ahead with roughly 51 percent of the vote. But the centrist president, Traian Basescu, refused to concede the race, claiming media manipulation and declaring himself the true victor.”
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