English 'world language' forecast
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A third of people on the planet will be learning English in the next decade,  says a report.
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If the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is right, our planet is heading for some big upheavals. By 2100, they predict, global sea levels will have risen by 9cm to 88cm, and average temperatures will be about 1.5 to 5.5C higher than now.
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I think I've mentioned this before but on Saturday Feb 12th I'll be talking  about the Jakarta FeedParser at CodeCon  in San Francisco.  I published an outline  of the talk on the FeedParser wiki.  I'm hoping to have a 0.5 release done before then and havepotentially another suprise in the works.
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Languages should become a standard part of the English primary school curriculum, a report is expected to say.
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Of the estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, linguists say, nearly half are in danger of extinction and are likely to disappear in this century.
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Jobless people who cannot speak English will have to learn the language or face benefit cuts under new plans.
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Google is attempting to jump over language barriers in a single bound. The search king this week launched a new feature to convert search results into 12 different languages. The long-term implications could be a boon for e-commerce.
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A look ahead at issues and events likely to make headlines in the year to come.
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The following is a selection of quotes from editorials and commentaries carried in 26-27 June 2007 website editions of mainland Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwan newspapers and news portals available to BBC Monitoring. Unless otherwise stated, the quotes are in Chinese.
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Premier Gordon Brown Thursday pledged to make English the world's "language of choice", announcing a huge programme to boost teaching and access to resources, particularly in China and India.
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The following guide updates the edition published on 29 January 2007. The "Other broadcasts from abroad" section now includes details of a new Somali-language radio service from the Voice of America (VOA) being launched on 12 February, and reaction to this news from a pro-Islamist website.
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Text of report in English by Malaysian news agency Bernama website  Kuching, 20 February (Bernama) -- The Ministry of Information will set up a 24-hour radio news channel in Bahasa Malaysia and English, based on the "reality" concept, which will be on air within the next three months.
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Last call for vocab, me old china plates Microsoft is calling for final contributions to its UK dialect dictionaries - due for free release in July.â¦
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La Nina, the cooling of sea surfaces in the Pacific Ocean which can wreak havoc with weather patterns, is likely to develop by the end of the year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.
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What to watch for coming down the track that could indicate the R word is in sight.
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Ernesto Zedillo on the uncertainty of the global finanical picture in the year ahead.
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Views you can use to get clues on Tuesday's news.