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Lone gunman fires on U.S. embassy in Bosnia USA Today By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY Bosnia's president says shootings by a lone gunman in front of the US Embassy in Sarajevo constituted a terrorist attack, the Associated Press reports. Update at 12:51 pm ET: The BBC, quoting Bosnian TV, reports police as ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Travel Picks: Top 10 haunted hotels Reuters However, the hotel's most intriguing have been its supernatural inhabitants, who were reportedly first sighted by British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) journalists after WorldWar II. Reporters claim to have seen the ghost of Emperor Napoleon III, ... See all stories on this topic »

Tonight on Top Gear USA: the three presenters try their hand at smuggling ... Top Gear (blog) Tesla had sued the BBC for libel and malicious falsehood over a Top Gear film, first broadcast in December 2008, featuring the Tesla Roadster. The American company claimed that scenes from [...] If you purchased our averagely-dimensioned but ... See all stories on this topic »

Ghanaian broadcast legend Ben Malor opens up Myjoyonline.com May they excel and make all of us proud and prouder. • One of my best memories was when my BBC editors supported me in 1994 to cover the Soccer World Cup in the USAand I rented a car in Los Angeles and travelled to San Francisco to cover Cameroon's ... See all stories on this topic »

Tunisia elections: Do you fear the rise of Islamism in north Africa? Daily Mail What is there to gain by manipulating the muslim countries to stay backward and regress even more thereby encouraging them to hate us and want to war with us even more? Looking at what happened in Iran. The Yanks and the Brits along with the BBC ... See all stories on this topic »

Euro bailout - an animated explanation The Guardian (blog) Great video. Could've used a 'oh crap - we are in trouble' music filler at the end. Myvideo's aimed at BBC Bitesize audience (11-16) - and it managed to get me work experience at the BBC too! My hits have doubled in less than an hour! Well impressed!... See all stories on this topic »

Hauser next after museum curator's opportunistic pitch lands US VC Cabume - Cambridge technology news Now Fitzpatrick will meet with Hauser, co-founder of Acorn, the company behind theBBC Micro home computer which inspired so many people to take up computing. Fitzpatrick says Hauser has been a supporter of the museum idea from the outset, ... See all stories on this topic »

Clinton announces US "virtual embassy" for Iran National Iranian American Council Washington, DC - US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton announced on Voice of America's Parazit and BBC Persian on Wednesday morning that the US would establish a “virtual embassy” for Iran before the end of the year. Clinton urged the Iranian people ... See all stories on this topic »

Girls given equal rights to ascend British throne USA Today The BBC reports that the laws are not a matter for the 54-nation Commonwealth as a whole, only for the 16 countries which have the Queen as their head of state. Reuters says the current succession rules date back to 1688 and 1700 and were designed to ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Nigeria's population projected @ 433 million by 2050 Vanguard In 1996 for instance, a BBC report on Nigeria's 1996 Census titled: 'Nigeria's counting controversy' provides a glimpse of population controversy in Nigeria since 1963. “No-one knows how many Nigerians there are – and till date, the authorities have ... See all stories on this topic »

Kenya: The Quixotic Invasion of Somalia Will Devastate Kenya AllAfrica.com Nairobi-based television anchors have exchanged their ill-fitting suits for equally bizarre military fatigues in a pathetic attempt to reprise the recurring martial misadventures of CNN and BBC superstars like Christiane Anampour, Nic Robertson et al. ... See all stories on this topic »

Indian Grand Prix practice as it happened BBC News To relive the action - on the day the Buddh International Circuit hosted its first F1 cars - just click on Sarah Holt's report from Greater Noida. For all the reaction, and plenty more besides, keep your eyes acrossbbc.co.uk/f1. ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

'Shada,' the Unfinished/Unaired Tom Baker Story, is Coming to DVD TVShowsOnDVD.com With animation added to it, that version of Shada was shown on the BBCi interactive channel (now called BBC Red Button), and streamed on the BBC's website as well. What version(s) of Shada will BBC Video and 2|entertain release on DVD next year? ... See all stories on this topic »

LISTINGS: Rock & Pop, Jazz, Folk/Roots, Open Mic/Jamming, Opera, Concerts ... Sheffield Telegraph Rivelin Folk Club, All types of performance welcome, Nether Edge Bowling Club, Nether Edge Road, Wednesdays, 8.30pm (www.rivelinfolkclub.org.uk, tel 266563). Charlie Barker, BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards semi-finalist launches her new album, ... See all stories on this topic » Sheffield Telegraph

Efo Kodjo Mawugbe goes home Modern Ghana He was winner of the BBC's International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009 with his play, The Prison Graduates which was selected out of 12000 entries across the world. President John Evans Atta Mills, whose tribute, was read on his behalf by Mr ... See all stories on this topic » Modern Ghana

Moved Above Upper Price Channel - BBD, BBG, BBL, BBT, BBVA Retirement Planning Bill Barrett Corporation (BBC) is engaged in exploration, development and production of natural gas and crude oil, and all of its operations are conducted in the United States.BBC explores for and develops oil and natural gas in the Rocky Mountain ... See all stories on this topic »

Mississippi voters have chance to define life as starting at fertilization ... Public Radio International PRI "The Takeaway" is a national morning news program, delivering the news and analysis you need to catch up, start your day, and prepare for what's ahead. The show is a co-production of WNYC and PRI, in editorial collaboration with the BBC, The New York ... See all stories on this topic »

Moved Above Upper Bollinger Band - BAM, BBD, BBG, BBL, BBVA Retirement Planning Bill Barrett Corporation (BBC) is engaged in exploration, development and production of natural gas and crude oil, and all of its operations are conducted in the United States.BBC explores for and develops oil and natural gas in the Rocky Mountain ... See all stories on this topic »

Lords debate Middle East: Water DeHavilland (press release) (subscription) I have spent nearly my whole career in international affairs. It has often taken me overseas for extended periods, to Indonesia, Bosnia, Cambodia and Lebanon. I have worked as an academic, as well as for Amnesty International, the BBC World Service,... See all stories on this topic »

BBC News - Utah highway shut after 20m bees escape from lorry A lorry carrying at least 20 million bees overturns in the US state of Utah, temporarily ...Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ... WorldSeries set for epic decider ... Watch · 3: Video shows Gaddafi captured in Sirte Watch · 4: Chile's Hudson volcano: 'A monster' Watch · 5: Say what? ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15439754

Libya live - Telegraph - Telegraph.co.uk http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8838778 ...here's an opposing view from Mark Lawson, who presents BBC Radio 4's Front ... 14:44 Another video of Gadaffi's son Mutassim post-capture and still alive has ... clenched fist crushing a US fighter jet that was in Gaddafi's Tripoli compound. ... www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/.../Libya-live.html

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