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BBC World News, Sep 07, 2011


Gunman opens fire at Nevada diner
BBC News
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Megrahi 'very sick', says his son
BBC News
Since the fall of Colonel Gaddafi's regime in Libya, there have been calls for Megrahi to be returned to jail in the UK or tried in the US. Megrahi's son told the BBC's Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen: "He is so sick. If you see him now and compare ...
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Ditching the dollar
BBC News
By Jane O'Brien BBC News, Washington Within two years residents should be able to take out loans in BerkShares - an important indicator of the US currency's health. Tucked away in the western corner of Massachusetts, the rolling hills of Berkshire ...
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Asylum in Africa?
BBC News
By Farouk Chothia BBC African Service Ousted Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi once drove through several African countries in a convoy, throwing money out of his window to poor people who had lined the road to catch a glimpse of him in his flowing...
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High tax rate 'harms UK economy'
BBC News
They state that the UK has "one of the highest personal tax regimes in the industrialised world, making it less competitive internationally, and making us less attractive as a destination for both foreign investment and talented workers". ...
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BBC News
Childcare costs put parents in debt, survey concludes
BBC News
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BBC News
England win the toss and elect to field first.
BBC Sport
You can email us at tms@bbc.co.uk (with "For Mark Mitchener" in the subject line), text 81111 (and this is really important as we're sharing the inbox with Sam Lyon's live text on the evening's football internationals) with "CRICKET" as the first word ...
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BBC Sport
Nightcap 'good for older women'
BBC News
By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News Women who enjoy an alcoholic drink in the evening tend to be healthier as they move into old age, research shows. This nightcap could be a pint of beer, a glass of wine or a single measure of spirit, ...
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BBC Online and preparing for the Olympic Games - London 2012
BBC News (blog)
At Edinburgh, I talked about some of the innovations that we're experimenting with, with a view to including in the final BBC Olympics experience. To create a more active and immersive viewing experience when you're on the web. We plan to enrich video ...
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BBC News (blog)
School run car congestion tackled
BBC News
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Mercury moments
BBC News
As they arrived for the ceremony in London, the band told the BBC they were "scared by the thought" of becoming the first band to win the Mercury Music Prize twice. Katy B wrote and recorded her debut album On A Mission over three years at university. ...
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Live: Phone hacking, riots and Treasury questions
BBC News
Hacking: To put a face to the name, this was Tom Crone, former News International legal director, giving evidence a short time ago. Hacking: Mark Lewis, the lawyer who represented former PFA chairman Gordon Taylor, tells the BBC it's now inevitable ...
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Libya: September 6 as it happened
Telegraph.co.uk
18.29 UPDATED The BBC has new images of the Lockerbie bomber and have been speaking to his son Khaled al-Megrahi. He told reporters: I want everbody, especially in the UK and specifically in Scotland to see my dad, how he's so sick because I see in the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Holby City Hospital's Emergency Department is 25
ATV Today
But then, the BBC regards the UK as "nations" (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and "regions" (the country formerly known as England - although the only area allowed a referendum on political regionalisation, the North East, voted a resounding NO! ...
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Freeview HD will deliver new IPTV channels this month
Register
MHEG was designed for laying out Digital Text pages (the Red button on BBC channels) but was recently extended to include control of video streams under the title MHEG-IC (Interaction Channel). It's already being used by the latest set-top incarnation ...
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London 2012: Shakespeare Festival leads cultural events
BBC News
By Helen Bushby BBC News The World Shakespeare Festival is the "trump card" putting "art at the heart of the Olympics", the head of the Cultural Olympiad has said. Ruth Mackenzie said the event, which is part of the London 2012 Festival - will put ...
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BBC News
Can Google TV Succeed in the UK?
The Independent (blog)
Well, luckily for us, things are a little on different this side of the Atlantic. Thanks to the TV licensing fees we pay as a nation, we directly fund the BBC, which is the single most popular broadcasting network in the UK. Our contributions mean the ...
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The Independent (blog)
BBC's Friday Night Dinner Coming To NBC
PerezHilton.com
Greg Daniels, the dude behind adapting another british comedy you might have heard of for the US (The Office, anyone?) has been tapped to bring another britcom to NBC — a show called Friday Night Dinner! Created by Robert Popper, Friday Night Dinner, ...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers return
BBC 6 Music
"It's so strange, because there are many countries on this planet but having a number one record in the UK or the USA is somehow more special," Keidis told BBC 6 Music. "Led Zepplin came from here!" "This little island, all this great music that we ...
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BBC 6 Music
Plane music
BBC News
"You definitely knew you were on a plane with the sloping ceilings and the traditional oval windows," said BBC Radio Leicester's Rebecca Bryers. "Inside the atmosphere was electric and a huge cheer went up as the band took to the stage. ...
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BBC News
Hit BBC Show Filmed at East Durham College
PR Web (press release)
Parts of East Durham College have been used to film scenes in the new two-part series of Inspector George Gently, a crime drama television series produced by the BBC and first aired in 2007. The boardroom at the Houghall Campus provided us with the ...
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PR Web (press release)
Bus times go mobile with beta test of Countdown app in London
The Guardian
It's interesting when seen in the wider context of "open" in government: as pointed out by Rory Cellan-Jones at the BBC (ably assisted by FOI researcher Julia Ross), the government faces a number of hurdles in moving to open source, principally the ...
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The Guardian
James Murdoch Likely to Face New Questions
Bloomberg
“Rupert Murdoch was very much at the top of the empire and covering a vast range of activities,” Coffey told BBC Radio 5. “I think it's clear that James Murdoch was the key figure.” Lawmakers may meet next week to decide on whether to recall witnesses ...
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Let's Not Welcome Computers as our New Overlords Just Yet
Business Insider
There was a brilliant article recently on the BBC website posing the theory that algorithms are taking over the world. It is true that algorithms are now being used for everything from finding friends on Facebook to making trading decisions based on ...
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ANALYSIS: 9/11 and conspiracy theories — I —Nayyer Khan
Pakistan Daily Times
A BBC documentary identified that out of the 2071 victims in the twin towers, 192 were Jews — that makes 9.2 percent of the total. This is a high percentage considering that Jews constitute only two percent of the US population As the 10th anniversary ...
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What Might an 'American World Service' Look Like?
Columbia Journalism Review (blog)
The setup is fine, but I constantly wish for a twenty-four-hour network devoted to serious global news, like BBC World or Al-Jazeera. Even people in the US with expanded cable packages are denied serious global news coverage, of course, as most cable ...
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Rain jams U.S. Open schedule
San Francisco Chronicle
Track and field: Double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius cut short a BBC radio interview after he was asked whether he could be viewed as an "inconvenient embarrassment" to track and field officials for competing in able-bodied competitions. ...
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UN Finds Torture in Afghan-Run Prisons, US Halts Transfer of Prisoners
KGO-AM
Ojo Images/Workbook Stock(UNITED NATIONS) -- A United Nations report that was supposed to be released next week has been leaked to the BBC and delivers explosive allegations against Afghanistan's police and its equivalent of the FBI. ...
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Rugby World Cup 2011: Magnificent seven give their predictions
The Guardian
Come on guardian, don't fall into the BBC trap of English uber-bias when it comes to sports coverage please, doing yourself a disservice. Botha out of Wales game. Rossouw more than capable cover but at least Wales wont have to be as wary of headbutts ...
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The Guardian
Flash-mob haka captures world
Stuff.co.nz
The clips have been picked up by the BBC and CNN world news organisations, and a flash-mob Facebook page shows haka have also been performed in Australia and the US. Malcolm Mulholland, a Massey University Maori rugby historian, says the haka are a ...
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Cameron's BS and the NHS Reforms
Huffington Post UK (blog)
The BBC recently justified its entire license fee with the airing the late Bill Hicks' stand-up show Revelations, filmed live at the Dominion Theatre in 1992. For me , the highlight of the show was Hicks' invective against those who work in advertising ...
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The Twins of the Twin Towers
DigitalJournal.com
New York - This is another BBC Television documentary about the day the worldchanged, about those who survived, and those who didn't. This slightly off-beat documentary is currently available at this link. Of the nearly 3000 people who lost their ...
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DigitalJournal.com
After 7 Years, Brazil May Withdraw Troops from Haiti
Antiwar.com
by Jeremy Sapienza, September 06, 2011 Brazilian Defense Minister Celso Amorim told the BBC his country plans to begin removing its troops from Haiti, after it was determined the occupation doesn't help Haitians. The troops were sent in 2004 as part of ...
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What We're Reading
New York Times (blog)
By THE NEW YORK TIMES BBC Food: The BBC Food Blog is asking readers what food souvenirs they collected over the summer. I tend to hoard them, which explains why the plum brandy I picked up near Bratislava two decades ago still sits in the liquor ...
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Symphony rocks the Proms in London
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
... was co-principal flute of the BBC Symphony in the mid-`90s. "In rehearsal it takes a bit of time to adjust to how you sound in here," she says. "There`s raked seating, so the flutes have walls of sound from the clarinets and horns coming over us. ...
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Koenigsegg claims six world records - BBC Top Gear
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