The rollout is currently focusing on Australia, India, Indonesia, South Africa and Venezuela, but should spread to the rest of the world in short order. iOS users are also in line to get the update, although the timetable is less definite.
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The euro zone debt crisis produced two years of fears that it would result in financial collapse and a severe recession in Europe that would spread to the rest of the world.
The idea quickly spread to other cities around the world, with cyclists meeting regularly to promote biking as a form of urban transport.
In the 1980s multichannel television began to spread around the world.
The euro crisis has spread to Italy, the world's third-largest bond market, which means the stock of rich-world government debt that is considered safe has shrunk dramatically.
America will continue to lead the effort to prevent the spread of the world's most dangerous weapons.
Over the past several years, EPEAT has spread to countries around the world and is arguably the most recognized green technology certification on the market.
Historically, Timbuktu's legend began to spread throughout the medieval world when the Emperor of Mali made his pilgrimage to Mecca through Cairo in 1324, and dazzled those he encountered with the gold his party carried.
Public health crises of the past decade, like SARS in 2003 or the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009, have highlighted how easy it is for diseases to spread around the world, including through air travel.
Whether it fizzles out or gets busted up through divide and conquer strategies remains to be seen, but the movement, which got its start in the editorial offices of Adbusters, a non-influential magazine based in Vancouver, continues to spread around the world.
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"We pray for love and peace to spread through the world, " said worshiper Fatin Yousef, 49.
Two closely-related strains of Clostridium difficile became antibiotic resistant and were able to rapidly spread to hospitals around the world, a study says.
Here are two credible threats to global systems: a massive cyber attack that could spread to the rest of world and interfere with SCADA systems everywhere and carbon whiskers that could short out power transmission systems.
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It is an idea that has spread to cities around the world, such as Ottawa, Mexico City and Paris, but it started in Colombia when the streets were handed over to cyclists on a Sunday in the mid-1970s to encourage cycling in a safe environment.
The Gideons' hotel Bible project began in the U.S. in 1908 and has spread to 194 countries around the world.
It is the scientific objectivity of genetic studies that gives it the power to say "at around this time, these people were here", freeing anthropologists to discuss the human developments - biological, societal, even political - that led populations to move and spread throughout the world.
Instead, the pope often took a scholarly approach to public speaking, using discursive and, at times, provocative prose to tackle complex and divisive issues, ranging from the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV, to the West's relations with the Muslim world.
Instead, the pope has often taken a scholarly approach to public speaking, using discursive and, at times, provocative prose to tackle complex and divisive issues, ranging from the use of condoms to prevent the spread of HIV, to the West's relations with the Muslim world.
"Not only would we lose up to half of our land, but spread radiation to the rest of the world, " he said.
In 2003 an outbreak of Sars killed about 800 people after the virus spread to more than 30 countries around the world.
In 2002 an outbreak of Sars killed about 800 people after the virus spread to more than 30 countries around the world.
One urgent example is the effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, and to seek a world without them.
GM's crisis, once concentrated mostly in North America, has now spread to the rest of the world.
Morgan and spread to Europe and around the world during the Great War.
As they become more and more successful, their techniques, tools and structures rapidly spread to financial centres around the world.
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As Europeans spread to new territories across the world, priests and monks set up schools, hoping to convert their inhabitants through education.
All of these predictions shift, however, if economic troubles in America spread to other parts of the world, says Gartner Research analyst David Cearley.
The United Nations has heralded the cheap laptops--which will be shipped early next year to school children in Brazil, Thailand, Egypt and Nigeria--as an effective way to spread computers across the world.
They told delegates at the conference that the failure to make more condoms available to people in the developing world is harming efforts to tackle the spread of Aids.
"The virus continues to spread, both domestically and around the world, " said Richard Besser, the acting CDC director.
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