Question: The revamped engine indexes more pages than before, can give direct answers to factual questions, and features tools to help people create detailed queries.

The engine can answer specific queries directly.
Answer: yes
Question: As parties adapt to these new conditions, new definitions - replete with new assumptions about their functions - are likely to shape the ongoing debate about their roles and functions in the 21st century.

Several new political parties emerged.
Answer: no
Question: Earlier this year, Kai-Uwe Ricke, chief executive of Deutsche Telekom, floated the possibility that T-Mobile USA might be sold.

Deutsche Telekom sold T-Mobile USA.
Answer:
no