News Headlines - 13 February 2014
▽Italian Prime Minister to Resign, Clearing Path for Renzi
A party revolt forced Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta to resign, clearing the way for the ascent of a rival who has promised to shake up Italy's sclerotic political system and try to reverse an alarming decline of the euro zone's third-largest economy.
Mr. Letta's departure will bring to an end a 10-month-old government that has teetered since its formation last spring and has come under fire for failing to combat Italy's worst economic crisis since World War II. His probable successor is party rival Matteo Renzi, the 39-year-old mayor of Florence and new chief of the Democratic Party, Italy's largest political group.
▽Video: Steve Jobs' personal mouse found in 30-year-old time capsule - The Independent
A time capsule assembled by Steve Jobs and containing his personal computer mouse has been unearthed in Colorado 30 years after it was buried.
The capsule was initially put in the ground to accompany Jobs' delivery of a speech about the future of technology at the Aspen International Design Conference in 1983.
The photographs - taken by Britain's disaster monitoring satellite, the UK-DMC2 - have been used to assist emergency services in their response.
The recoloured images show how badly the area around Bridgwater has been hit over the past few months since the River Parrett burst its banks.
They were taken on January 30 2013, December 9 and February 8 2014 when the UK activated the International Charter Space and Major Disasters - an international effort to task Earth Observation satellites to provide free data during natural emergencies.
▽How can I upgrade my netbook from XP to Windows 7? | theguardian.com
Windows XP goes out of support in April, so I’m looking for guidance on how best to go about replacing it with Windows 7. The Microsoft site has a tutorial, but is still somewhat baffling, and it seems fairly time-consuming. Would I be wasting my time pressing on? I am not keen on replacing an otherwise satisfactory netbook with a tablet.
▽Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu poised for gold medal after record men's skating score | theguardian.com
Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu broke his own record and won the men’s short program at the Sochi Games on a night four-time Olympic medalist Evgeni Plushenko retired from competitive skating.
About two hours after Plushenko withdrew with a back injury Thursday, Hanyu became the first figure skater to ever surpass the 100-point mark with a spectacular routine that earned him 101.45.
