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Police received a complaint after Sunday's edition of the nature show, in which Clarkson and presenter Chris Packham approached a nest box in a farm building of the Top Gear presenter's Oxfordshire home.

BBC Scotland publishes further evidence about a suspected conflict of interest concerning the administrators of Rangers.

Mean sobre nosotros. Imaginen que es lluvia.

According to the Dr. Who Fan Site on Google+ Matt Smith will be carrying the Olympic Torch this weekend when it reaches Cardiff in the latest leg of its 70 day trip around the United Kingdom. Smith will bear the torch early on Saturday morning, at the start of its journey from Cardiff, the capital…

"Se prendiamo il Barça, il Man Utd e il Real Madrid, parliamo di tre squadre che fatturano circa 500 milioni di euro. Questi club in questo momento sono più forti di noi".

Alison Steadman will play Ginny Fox - a spoof of Virginia Woolf - in the comedy Gloomsbury on BBC Radio 4 next month.

BBC pay £179.7m to keep rights to 'Match Of The Day' for three years from the 2013/14 season.

The BBC have secured a rights extension to continue showing Premier League highlights show until the end of the 2015/16 season.

Culture secretary was 'not the impartial arbiter he was required to be' over Murdoch BSkyB bid, says Harriet HarmanThe Labour party has made fresh calls for Jeremy Hunt to resign after the Leveson inquiry heard the culture secretary had written an outspoken memo to David Cameron staunchly supporting the £8bn Murdoch family bid for BSkyB, a month before he was handed the task of adjudicating on ...

MAX HASTINGS: I am sure a BBC ‘social historian’ would condemn my list as old, boring and bourgeois. But at least it highlights people who deserve to be honoured.

With audience figures plummeting, its ‘superstar coaches’ unhappy and a string of on-air gaffes, the £25 million talent show The Voice is fast turning into a major embarrassment for the BBC.

Look out, kids. Big Mother is watching. This week, Vodafone starts offering a service called Bemilo that gives parents unprecedented control over how their kids use their cell phones. Bemilo, a £2.95-a-month service (that’s about five bucks), uses a special SIM card that can go in any phone or tablet. Amazingly, and somewhat terrifyingly, parents can log on to a web interface that basically ser...

El príncipe Carlos de Inglaterra demuestra sus dotes como pinchadiscos en Canadá

The corporation said it pays 'up to 3,000' people - such as Chris Evans - through service companies. But it refused to reveal how many top presenters and other talent are paid this way.

A BBC journalist said Wednesday that the former tabloid newspaper editor Piers Morgan showed him how to hack into phones 10 years ago.

Former Rangers director Paul Murray wants Duff & Phelps' role as administrator investigated after BBC revelations.

Eleanore Regan, a 28-year-old charity worker, gave birth last week, but she still managed to carry the Olympic torch in Bath for a solid 300 meters (about .2 miles) on Monday.The new mom is one of 8,000 people who will carry the torch in the 8,000-mile relay that started in Land's End, Cornwall on May 19th and will finish at London's Olympic Stadium on the 27th. The Daily Mail reports that torc...

The Scottish Premier League have offered assurances that their investigation into alleged undisclosed payments by Rangers is progressing. The SPL released a statement hours before a BBC1 Scotland documentary.

NASA head Charles Bolden has hailed a "new era" in exploration after the launch of the first cargo delivery to the space station Tuesday by a private company, BBC reported.

British ministers are discussing role in possible Israel-Iran military confrontation, including use of Royal Navy.

Bundesligist BBC Bayreuth hat Jason Cain von den Eisbären Bremerhaven verpflichtet. Der 27 Jahre alte Power Foward aus den USA unterzeichnete beim BBC einen Zweijahresvertrag.

Bundesligist BBC Bayreuth hat Jason Cain von den Eisbären Bremerhaven verpflichtet. Der 27 Jahre alte Power Foward aus den USA unterzeichnete beim BBC einen Zweijahresvertrag.

On this solo joint the ever-adventuring Gorillaz and Blur frontman gets together with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Nigerian drummer Tony Allen for an operatic salute to mysterious Elizabethan alchemist John Dee An ambitious and unexpected move sure but the mix of period strings vocal choruses and West African percussion...

Alors que BBC Radio envoie Hazard à Manchester United, le LOSC tempère l’info et l’agent du joueur annonce qu’Eden annoncera son choix après les matchs amicaux des Dia...lire la suite

Depuis plusieurs jours, les médias britanniques spéculent sur le choix d'Eden Hazard, pour la prochaine saison. Aujourd'hui encore, les versions divergeaient entre Radio BBC qui affirmait qu'il avait signé à United alors que le Telegraph l'annonçait proche de Chelsea.

From 1957, "Private Dreams and Public Nightmares," an incredibly weird and fantastic BBC sound experiment by writer Frederick Bradnum, pioneering electronic music composer Daphne Oram, and producer Donald McWhinnie. Oram went on to co-found the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the massively influential sound effects and music studio. From McWhinnie's narration introducing the piece: This programme is ...

A suicide bomber killed an estimated 96 people and injured over 300 at a rehearsal for a military parade in Yemen's capital of Sanaa on Monday. It was the worst episode of violence since President Abed Rabbo Masour Hadi took office in February. According to the BBC, al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. Yemeni Colonel Amin al-Alghabati said, "The suicide bomber was dressed in a mili...

A farmer tells the BBC his income has fallen from 4,000 euros a month to just over 400.

Three-time Oscar winner Giorgio Moroder told BBC Radio 5 live how he helped to make Donna Summer into an icon.

THE singer has issued his picture to security at the BBC1 show’s studios to stop him

New York (dpa) - Disco-Queen Donna Summer ist im Alter von 63 Jahren gestorben. Das berichteten CNN und BBC unter Berufung auf ihr Management. Die US-Sängerin war mit Hits wie «Hot Stuff» und «Love T...

It was unveiled on the BBC TV show ‘Tomorrow’s World’ in 1991 during which its British inventor held a Starlite-coated egg up to a blowtorch - and it was still runny inside.

BBC poll measures public opinion on 22 countries, places Israel in company of North Korea, ahead of only Iran, Pakistan.

Les dirigeants européens "et spécialement Mme Merkel doivent arrêter de jouer au poker avec les vies des gens", a lancé le chef du parti de gauche radicale grec Syriza à l'intention, entre autres, de la chancelière allemande Angela Merkel, dans une interview à la BBC. Alexis Tsipras souligne, dans...

If a $1 billion ghost town sounds to you like the set of sci-fi movie, think again. A company called Pegasus Global Holdings is constructing a to…

King Abdullah II instructed Jordan's government to probe reports of cruelty at care homes for children with physical and mental disabilities in his country after a BBC Arabic documentary was broadcast.

COMBINED age 176 — their show is going down a storm on BBC Radio Humberside

BBC Scotland's political correspondent Glenn Campbell visits Canada to assess the impact of a minimum price for alcohol.

John Peel – John Robert Parker Ravenscroft de son vrai nom – fut sans conteste le plus grand DJ anglais. Durant 37 ans, il a animé des émissions à la BBC, sur Radio 1, ...lire la suite

Selon la BBC, Robin van Persie et ses représentants vont rencontrer...

The UN has greatly downplayed the scale of the global drinking water crisis, research carried out by the BBC suggests.

An increasing number of people in Western countries view China's influence in a favorable light, according to a BBC World Service poll published on Friday.

What is needed is a Tory at the top to help Britain rediscover its spirit of enterprise, writes Boris Johnson.

‘WE’RE THE MINUTES. Don’t forget it. If you forget it, I’ll go round to all your houses and make you not forget it.” That’s what Mark Austin, the singer and guitarist with Dublin band The Minutes announced before playing their last song at the BBC Introducing stage at last year’s Reading festival. Call it ballsy, call it self-belief. Either way, it’s working.

Prinz Charles und seine versteckten Talente: Für die schottische BBC präsentierte er die Wettervorhersage. Sein Auftritt war so charmant und witzig, dass das Video nun zum Internet-Hit wurde

VIDÉO - À l'occasion d'une visite dans les studios de la BBC, l'héritier du trône d'Angleterre s'est prêté à la présentation du bulletin météo. Avec humour et naturel, il a notamment annoncé pluie et neige sur l'Ecosse.Articles en rapportDix mois de prison ferme pour l'agression au CHU de GrenobleHarcèlement sexuel : de nouvelles consignesDieudonné risque de nouvelles poursuites en BelgiqueDes ...

C'est avec beaucoup d'humour que le prince Charles a joué au présentateur météo sur la BBC. L'héritier du trône d'Angleterre s'est montré tr...lire la suite

Era una visita protocolaria. Se cumplían 60 años de la inauguración de los estudios de la BBC en la ciudad escocesa de Glasgow y los invitados a los fastos eran el príncipe Carlos y la duquesa de Cornualles. Los responsables de la cadena de televisión les propusieron entonces ejercer de hombre y mujer del tiempo por un día. Y a pesar de que amenazaba tormenta, los dos aceptaron y se defendieron...

HEIR to the British throne Prince Charles has had a light-hearted go at presenting the weather on BBC television, predicting a miserable spate of rain and snow for Scotland.

Prinz Charles präsentiert in der BBC das Wetter.

Le prince Charles, héritier du trône d'Angleterre, s'est prêté jeudi, avec...

Ha accedido a dar la información meteorológica con motivo de una visita que ha efectuado a las oficinas de la BBC en Escocia.

In Großbritannien ist das Wetter derzeit so schlecht, dass Prinz Charles höchstpersönlich im Fernsehen die Moderation der Vorhersage übernimmt. Doch auch seine königliche Hoheit kann den Regen nicht wegzaubern.

Heir to the British throne Prince Charles had a light-hearted go at presenting the weather on BBC television on Thursday, predicting a miserable spate of rain and snow for Scotland.

Schlechtes Wetter wird zwar auch nicht besser, wenn es vom Thronfolger vorgetragen wird. Doch die Vorhersage wird eindeutig zur Nebensache: In der BBC hatte kein geringerer als Kronprinz Charles seinen ersten Auftritt als Wetterfrosch. Und er machte seine Sache so gut, dass sich womöglich eine Alternative zur ewigen Prinzenrolle abzeichnet.

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall turned their hand to weather forecasting when they visited BBC Scotland headquarters in Glasgow today.

The royal makes a guest appearance on TV during a visit to Scotland

The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall turned their hand to weather forecasting when they visited BBC Scotland headquarters in Glasgow today.

Film-maker Adanech Admassu tells the BBC about her award-winning film about forced marriages in Ethiopia.

Utl.: Am 14. & 15. Juni. Mit Referenten von BBC, Guardian, Zeit Online = Wien (OTS) - Das fjum_forum journalismus und medien wien und das European Journalism Center (EJC) veranstalten im Juni in Wien die international besetzte Datenjournalismus-Konferenz "Data.Journalism!" Am ersten …

RTÉ radio and television presenter Ryan Tubridy is to work with BBC again this summer after the announcement by the UK broadcaster that he will be covering for broadcaster Chris Evans during the summer months.

She's played everyone from Lady Macbeth to Cleopatra, but it's Frances Barber's latest role as Caroline Warwick, hit BBC legal drama Silk, that's had the biggest effect on her.

Mit Tiraden echter Diktatoren geht die BBC souverän um. Aber was soll der britische Sender bei Zensurvorwürfen eines fiktiven Despoten machen? Die erhebt General Aladeen, neueste Figur von Komiker Sacha Baron Cohen - cleverer PR-Schachzug und Gag in einem.

Chris James and Robin Millar of the United Kingdom both lost their vision after birth because of a genetic condition known as retinitis pigmentosa , in which light-sensitive cells in the eye stop working. Now, surgeons have partially restored vision to both men with tiny electronic chips that promise to help the blind see the same way cochlear implants have helped the deaf hear. Teams of docto...

For someone who likes to talk about the virtues of disconnecting, the media critic Douglas Rushkoff seems surprisingly always on. When I visited him at his storefront office near his home in Hastings on Hudson, New York, he was preparing to teach a new class, getting ready for a BBC interview, writing an essay, staring down a pile of articles to read, trying to figure out his new iPhone, and hu...

CARDINAL SEÁN Brady has criticised elements of a BBC documentary about clerical child sex abuse and complained that it “deliberately exaggerated” his role as a member of a 1975 church inquiry team charged with establishing the accuracy of abuse allegations.

A BBC documentary chronicles stories of those abused by a pedophile priest

DUBLIN (AP) -- The leader of Ireland's 4 million Catholics, Cardinal Sean Brady, says he won't resign after a BBC documentary accused him of helping to cover up child abuse committed by a pedophile priest in the 1970s....

Selon la BBC, la Fédération anglaise a discuté avec Roy Hodgson, le manager de West Bromwich, pour le poste de sélectionneur, laissé vacant par Fabio Capello. Le club anglais a donné l'autorisation à la FA pour entamer des discussions. Il pourrait être sur le banc anglais pour l'Euro.

Unlike Tupac, BBC host James May doesn't have to be dead before we get an augmented reality version of him. Granted, this is not quite as thrilling as having a Hologram Tupac Shakur perform as if still living, but as far as museum guides go, an augmented reality miniature man is a pretty sweet deal. More »

X Factor judge Tulisa has revealed she's not checked out opposition BBC show yet

The US justice department has filed the first criminal charges linked to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A former BP engineer was arrested on charges of intentionally destroying evidence. Kurt Mix of Katy, Texas, faces two counts of obstruction of justice...from BBC News

@jitpleecheep Wer fackelt hier Strohmänner ab? Den Discovery-Clip hat Discovery (mit eigenem Markenlogo) in YouTube eingestellt, und es bietet dort ausdrücklich die Einbettung an - in diesem Fall tue ich also nichts, wozu der Rechteinhaber nicht ausdrücklich seine Erlaubnis gegeben hatte. Das führte leider - weil die Europarechte bei BBC liegen - zu dem Ergebnis, dass einige LeserInnen diesen C...

BBC report said celebrities and politicians were among those who took part in Sunday race

John de Mol, the man who created The Voice and Big Brother, is preparing another series for the BBC called I Love My Country.

PETER DAWSON, the chief executive of the Royal Ancient Golf Club, has warned the BBC its future broadcasting of the British Open is at risk if it continues to scale down its live golf coverage.

Jerusalem dismisses comment as "another nutty statement from another nutty Israel basher."

LONDON (Reuters) - Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb has woken from a coma more than a week after he lost consciousness and has attempted to communicate with family members at his hospital bedside, the BBC reported on Saturday. Gibb, 62, has begun to show signs of recovery and has been able to nod and communicate with his family, spokesman Doug Wright was quoted as saying by the BBC. Wright could not ...

The BBC talks to the man behind the notorious revenge porn site IsAnyoneUp

It's a treat to watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus put her smart comedic skills to the political test as Selina Meyer in Armando Iannucci's 'Veep' on HBO.Armando Iannucci's droll, fleet "Veep," which premieres Sunday on HBO and stars Julia Louis-Dreyfusas Selina Meyer, vice president of the United States, has nothing to do with Sarah Palin, who once came close to occupying that post and bears a minor re...

In a new biography of “X-Factor” creator Simon Cowell, former BBC journalist Tim Bower alleges that Cowell had an affair with ex-judge , Dannii Minogue, according to a report from the U.K. Mirror.

Periódicos como Washington Post, Daily Mail o Telegraph , diarios iberoamericanos, africanos y australianos o cadenas como la BBC se han hecho eco en sus ediciones del accidente de don Juan Carlos, de su afición por la caza y de las críticas que se han vertido en España por este asunto, ya que coincide con una época de fuertes ajustes económicos y de las mayores tasas de paro de los países de l...

(Phys.org) -- A Bellevue, Washington, company specializing in display technology based on eyewear and contact lenses has sealed a deal with DARPA. Innovega, which says its technology can open a “new dimension to virtual and augmented reality applications,” told the BBC earlier this week that it has signed a contract to deliver a prototype of its iOptik display system to DARPA. That system consi...

Shift workers getting too little sleep at the wrong time of day may be increasing their risk of diabetes and obesity, according to researchers. The team is calling for more measures to reduce the impact of shift working following the results of its study...from BBC News

BBC Worldwide has invested in spaceport.io, which is building a platform that enables games to play across both mobile devices and the Web. Details of the investment were not disclosed. Spaceport.io of a Burlingame, Calif. will use the capital to hire additional employees and to develop its HTML5 and Flash-compatible technology. The BBC Worldwide plans to use the technology to lower the cost of...

Major aircraft contract from the Indonesian national carrier will boost UK industry.

NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court has said it is ‘pained’ by the plight of mentally disabled Pakistanis languishing in Indian jails. Justice RM Lodha said such cases should be given ‘priority’ when top leaders from the two countries meet, reported BBC on Tuesday.The judge said he was referring to 21 prisoners, 16 of whom are ‘mentally unsound and five are deaf ...

NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court has said it is ‘pained’ by the plight of mentally disabled Pakistanis languishing in Indian jails. Justice RM Lodha said such cases should be given ‘priority’ when top leaders from the two countries meet, reported BBC on Tuesday.The judge said he was referring to 21 prisoners, 16 of whom are ‘mentally unsound and five are deaf ...

NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court has said it is ‘pained’ by the plight of mentally disabled Pakistanis languishing in Indian jails. Justice RM Lodha said such cases should be given ‘priority’ when top leaders from the two countries meet, reported BBC on Tuesday.The judge said he was referring to 21 prisoners, 16 of whom are ‘mentally unsound and five are deaf ...

“Curveball,” the man whose lies about weapons of mass destruction helped form the basis for invading Iraq, has come clean in an interview with the BBC, as reported by British news site the Independent. Read full article >>

Olympic broadcaster will make 24 standard and high definition live streams available to satellite and cable providers

The next Masterpiece Classic entry on PBS, “Great Expectations,” is a BBC production starring Gillian Anderson, as Miss Havisham, and Ray Winstone, as Magwitch.

(Reuters) - News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch vowed to "hit back hard" against what his company president called baseless allegations from the BBC that a subsidiary ran a secret unit to promote piracy against pay-TV rivals.

News Corp President Chase Carey said that allegations in a BBC documentary that a subsidiary ran a secret unit promoting pirating of pay-TV rivals were “unfair and baseless”, backing a call for the broadcaster to retract the allegations.  

The former midfielder has complained over an alleged leading line of questioning, stating his subsequent words were taken out of context when appearing to insult Manchester United

UN human rights chief Pillay expresses concern over the targeting of children in Syria, in an interview with BBC.

Gary Oldman peut pousser un gros, gros soupir de soulagement. L'acteur nommé aux Oscars a révélé à la BBC qu'il avait failli perdre le script du film The...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has held talks to sell part of its stake in Royal Bank of Scotland to Abu Dhabi investors although a multibillion-pound deal is not imminent, people familiar with the...

El Gobierno británico mantiene negociaciones con el fondo soberano de Abu Dhabi encaminadas a la venta de parte de su participación en Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), que alcanza el 82% del accionariado tras el multimillonario rescate de la entidad escocesa, según informa la cadena BBC.

Gary Oldman can breathe a big, big sigh of relief. The Oscar-nominated actor reveals to the BBC that he nearly lost the script to The Dark Knight Rises, which would have landed him in...

Dévoilé lors de la première convention officielle de Doctor Who (qui s'est déroulée ce week-end à Cardiff en Angleterre), le premier trailer de la saison 7 de la série a été mis en ligne sur le site de la BBC....

Archaeologists working at the site of a new hotel in Bath, England, have discovered more than 30,000 Roman silver coins, the BBC reports.

Fabrice Muamba war nach seinem Herzstillstand 78 Minuten lang „in Wirklichkeit tot“. In der BBC spricht der Vereinsarzt der Bolton Wanderers über die bangen Minuten und die Genesung des Fußballspielers.

Katy Perry threw on a Yankees hat ... and belted out a rendition of the Jay Z/Kanye West track, "N**gas in Paris" ... and it's ... interesting. It all went down a few hours ago during a performance for BBC Radio 1 in London. Don't worry, Katy used…

El mediocampista del Bolton recibió resucitación cardiopulmonar en el terreno de juego y "lucha por su vida", según reporta BBC Radio 5

Shelina Permalloo was crowned the winner of MasterChef on BBC1 last night by judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace, who said she brought “sunshine to a plate”.

According to the BBC, .Uk just hit the 10 million domain mark. The 10th million domain name is  swarvemagazine.co.uk which was registered by Steven Northam for a photography-based publication. Nominet who operates the .Uk registry, “described the news as a “mega-milestone”. “It took charge of the top-level domain name in 1996 when there were 26,000 .uk sites.” Nominet’s chief executive, Lesley ...

LONDON (Reuters) - BBC Director General Mark Thompson announced proposals for an iTunes-style download service that would allow viewers to permanently download their favorite programs minutes after they have been broadcast for a fee.

Laut der BBC hat eine Handvoll kleiner Städte in Großbritannien pinke Beleuchtung rund um Läden und andere Bereiche, wo sich Jugendliche treffen, installiert und damit für Aufsehen gesorgt. Denn dieses Licht macht besonders Akne und Hautunreinigungen deutlich sichtbar. mehr...

Mark Thompson, Generaldirektor des Senders, sieht zunehmende Störungen von BBC Persian und beschuldigt die iranische Regierung der gezielten Angriffe auf den persischen Dienst.

BBC TV News is back on air in Pakistan, following a row over a documentary questioning the country's commitment to tackling militancy.

RITE AND REASON:I AM certain that the word prayer does not appear in any manual outlining how to deal with a serious accident at a nuclear power station anywhere in the world. Yet, prayer ran like a thread through the hour-long BBC2 programme Japan – Inside the Meltdown on February 23rd.

Volle Attacke auf Chelseas Besitzer Roman Abramowitsch: Die englische Trainervereinigung hat den Russen am Montag für seinen Verschleiß an Coaches scharf kritisiert. "Nach dem achten Trainer in neun Jahren zu suchen, ist eine ernsthafte Peinlichkeit für den Besitzer, den Klub, die Fans und die Liga", sagte der Chef der League Managers Association (LMA), Richard Bevan, dem Fernsehsender BBC.

[[369896]] LONDRES (AFP) : Le service international de la BBC a célébré mercredi ses 80 ans d'existence en se félicitant de son audience croissante en Iran et dans les pays arabes, dans un contexte de coupes budgétaires. "Les programmes ne seront ni très intéressants, ni très bons", avait pourtant...

Der Auftakt des 24. Spieltags stand in der BBL im Zeichen des Kampfes um den Play-off-Einzug. Frankfurt verbesserte seine Chancen durch einen nie gefährdeten 90:57-Erfolg beim BBC Bayreuth. Am Abend wehrte Ulm in Quakenbrück den Angriff der "Drachen" auf Platz zwei ab, Berlin schob sich auf Platz drei. Der FC Bayern kann auch auswärts gewinnen. Am Sonntag ließ sich BBL-Primus Brose Baskets von ...

A small group gathered at the Wellcome Trust in London last week to discuss the state of science journalism. Paul Nurse, Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society, was there, as was Steve Jones, the talented geneticist, writer, and broadcaster. The occasion was an opportunity to meet the BBC's new Science Editor, David Shukman. The appointment of a science guru at the BBC had been propo...

“I WATCHED a little baby die today. Absolutely horrific. There is just shells, rockets and tank fire pouring into civilian areas of this city and it is just unrelenting.” Thus reported Marie Colvin, an American journalist of extraordinary courage and integrity, to the BBC on Tuesday from the Syrian city of Homs. On Wednesday she was dead, killed along with the French photographer Remi Ochlik, r...

Ein Video über die geometrischen Ideen in den Originalaufzeichnungen von Newton und Leibniz: Das Video ist von 1986 (auch damals hatte die BBC schon wie heute auch Serien zur Geschichte der Mathematik), der Sprecher ist Jeremy Gray (nicht zu verwechseln mit Alfred Gray).Zum Beitrag im Blog »

Ein Video über die geometrischen Ideen in den Originalaufzeichnungen von Newton und Leibniz: Das Video ist von 1986 (auch damals hatte die BBC schon wie heute auch Serien zur Geschichte der Mathematik), der Sprecher ist Jeremy Gray (nicht zu verwechseln mit Alfred Gray).Zum Beitrag im Blog »

At least 73 people were killed and 1,000 injured in rioting that followed a soccer match in Port Said, Egypt, according to state television. Violence erupted after al-Masry, the home team, beat Al Ahly, Egypt’s top team, 3-1. State television showed images of fleeing players as fans ran onto the pitch, throwing stones, sticks and bottles. Egypt’s deputy health minister told the BBC that the dea...

Esa franja de telespectadores considera que los personajes que aparecen en la pantalla representando a jóvenes suelen ser estereotipos de personas "poco respetuosas", según la BBC

El presidente afgano, Hamid Karzai, planea reunirse con los talibanes en Arabia Saudí en las próximas semanas, en un intento por impulsar el diálogo de paz. Así lo informó ayer a la cadena británica BBC un alto funcionario del Gobierno de Kabul. El encuentro podría celebrarse antes del establecimiento de una oficina insurgente en Catar, según indicó el representante del Ejecutivo. No obstante, ...

Why do companies sponsor events and stadiums? It’s a question we’ve raised before, because it seems to do little good for the companies in the long run. Dow Chemical (DOW) is learning the lesson the hard way right now. Athletes, rights groups and politicians have spoken out against the company, which still carries the stain [...]

The BBC is creating a "crystal mark" charter allowing viewers to choose if they want the corporation to delete information it collects about them.

WHEN the BBC mothballed Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay thought that was that.

Robert Peston of the BBC and Sam Woods of the Independent Commission on Banking gamely effort an explanation of the U.K.’s banking crisis and the roadmap to recovery. What’s most needed, writes Shawn Langlois, is time.

The producers of Top Gear BBC programme have defended itself against a complaint from the Indian high commission that its December episode focussed on the country was "offensive".

Ein britischer Wissenschaftler hat in einem unscheinbaren Schubfach Fossilien-Arbeiten von Charles Darwin gefunden. In einer Schublade mit der Aufschrift "unregistrierte Pflanzenfossilien" lagen die wertvollen Stücke, berichtet die britische BBC.

Un morceau inédit du compositeur allemand Brahms sera joué sur la BBC pour la première fois le 21 janvier.

Michael Deacon reviews Alastair Sooke's documentary on unfinished art and culture - from Charles Dickens's novel Edwin Drood to Gilbert Stuart's painting of George Washington.

Peintre, critique d'art et écrivain, John Berger s'était rendu célèbre en 1976 par une série d'émissions réalisées pour la British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) : Ways of Seeing, un essai filmé en quatre volets également décliné sous forme de livre et traduit en français sous le titre Voir le voir . Il y (...) / Art, Littérature, Santé - 2011/10

Ein Inder hat vom Tod seines Sohnes zuerst über Facebook erfahren müssen. Weder die britische, noch die indische Regierung oder das Konsulat hätten ihn darüber informiert, dass sein Sohn Anuj nahe der Stadt Manchester im Nordwesten Englands erschossen worden sei, sagte Subhash Bidve dem Sender BBC. Erst im Internet habe er davon gelesen. Die britische Polizei entschuldigte sich für den Vorfall....

Drôle de choix que celui de la BBC... Sur son site Internet, le panda géant femelle Tian Tian (Sweetie, Chérie), arrivée début décembre au zoo écossais d'Edimbourg en provenance de Chine, figure dans la sélection des visages «  féminins » de l'année. Aux côtés notamment de Charlène de Monaco, de Pippa Middleton, de la femme de chambre Nafissatou Diallo et de la chanteuse britannique Adele. «

One million HIV testing kits are recalled in Kenya because of fears about their accuracy, a health official tells the BBC.

Iran jams channels like the BBC on Western satellites even as Iran's state media company broadcasts pro-government news on some of the same satellites, and at times has aired forced confessions of political detainees.

KARACHI - According to a BBC report, Pakistan’s military officials on Monday blamed an Afghan commander for the November 26 Nato strike on Salala check post in Mohmand agency, DawnNews reported.The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that the accused Afghan commander conspired on the instructions of Indian and Afghan intelligence to dismantle Pakistan’s ties with US and Nato.Accordi...

"What can I say," he told the BBC in 1996. "I hired the wrong guy." These oft-quoted remarks about John Sculley come from a BBC interview conducted 11 years after the man Jobs hired to run Apple (AAPL) outmaneuvered him in a boardroom coup. This 20-second clip resurfaced in "Steve Jobs: The Billionaire Hippy," a BBC special that aired last week. Until it gets pulled from YouTube, the hour-long...

PESHAWAR - The Pakistani government has ordered hundreds of journalists in its militancy-hit tribal regions to stop receiving pay as public teachers. The recently-issued edict surfaced in a government letter sent to the Tribal Union of Journalists (Tuj), reported BBC on Wednesday.It asked them to terminate the membership of those journalists who are wrongly receiving pay as teachers or clerks i...

The nation’s largest cable provider plans to offer BBC to nearly 15 million homes by the end of next year.

In der „Andrew Marr Show“ der BBC wird Politik gemacht. Am Wochenende ging es um den Alleingang des Premierministers David Cameron. Ihm wurden die Leviten gelesen.

LONDON (AFP) - The BBC welcomed Sunday a promise by Pakistan's prime minister to investigate the blocking of the BBC World News channel in the country after it showed a documentary about the Taliban.Pakistani cable operators pulled the channel nationwide on November 29 amid a row over the ‘Secret Pakistan’ documentary and amid anger over NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.In a st...

Maurice Greene, the 100-meter champion at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, told the BBC that Bolt has trouble in big races.

João Havelange will nicht wegen Bestechlichkeit belangt werden und tritt aus dem IOC zurück. Die BBC hatte dem 95-Jährigen vorgeworfen, eine Million Dollar kassiert zu haben. mehr...

(Reuters) - Former FIFA President Joao Havelange has resigned from the International Olympic Committee days before an ethics hearing into his conduct, the BBC reported.

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A British trade union is demanding that the BBC fire Jeremy Clarkson over comments that striking public sector workers should be shot.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- NPR Executive Editor Dick Meyer is leaving the public radio network to lead BBC News America....

Once a fixer in Kosovo for the BBC, Jeta Xharra rakes over the mix of corruption, organized crime and weak governance that is her nascent country today.

Osnabrück (ots) - Später Segen Deutsche Basketballfans dürfte die Einigung wehmütig machen: Ein Wechsel von Superstar Dirk Nowitzki in seine Heimat ist nun endgültig vom Tisch. Und auch auf Kevin Durant, der mit dem BBC Bayreuth verhandelt hat, braucht sich die BBL nun nicht mehr zu ...

Nach der vorläufigen Einigung im NBA-Tarifstreit ist der Kurztransfer von US-Topscorer Kevin Durant zum Bundesligisten BBC Bayreuth vom Tisch. Foto: AFP

The people running Olympic boxing claim they're not crooks, despite allegations made in a BBC television program that $9 million was paid by Azerbaijan to make sure the former Soviet republic wins two gold medals at the Olympics next year in London....

Der Wechsel von NBA-Topscorer Kevin Durant zum Basketball-Bundesligisten BBC Bayreuth steht offenbar kurz bevor. Foto: dpa

Basketball-Bundesligist BBC Bayreuth bastelt an einer Sensation. Die Oberfranken stehen in Verhandlungen mit einem der besten Spieler der Welt: Kevin Durant.

Kris Marshall, 38, (pictured), star of BBC sitcom My Family and the BT adverts, was arrested in a Tesco car park in Wells, Somerset, early on Saturday morning.

The $5.1 million sale of Toys.com to ToyRUS last Friday continues to draw mainstream media attention to domain names. Yesterday it was The BBC, today it is ABC News. I was interviewed for both stories and have some comments on how the media spotlight is helping raise domain awareness on Main Street.