1. The good news is that Microsoft has worked to ease the learning curve with Windows 8.1.

2. The case received wide attention in the Chinese news media in 2012.

3. President Obama held the last news conference of 2016.

4. He was fired by the Reuters news agency after charges were filed in 2013.

5. Twitter has made news and impacted history since its launch in 2006.

6. The Reuters news service put the toll at over 330.

7. Reuters news agency put the death toll to 461.

8. Google Glass has been a topic of conversation among techies since news of it first arrived in 2012.

9. Google Glass has been a topic of conversation among techies since news of it first surfaced in 2012.

10. The stock market greeted news of the agreement with joy, pushing BP up more than 5%.

11. Reuters broke the news of his impending visit on May 6.

12. They had little news of what was going on outside in the rest of Victoria, a city of 62,000.

13. You can tap the heart icon to indicate news articles that you like in the News app in iOS 9 beta 3.

14. He told Reuters news agency that India had fired 20,000 shells this year, compared with 200 in 2012.

15. Nokia shares, which at first jumped on the news, closed Friday at $5.37, down by $0.12.