BBC World News, Dec 02, 2011

Where are the women in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2011 shortlist? The Guardian England Women's World Cup quarter final against France was watched by a peak audience of 3.2m in the UK and the final between USA and Japan was the most tweeted-about sporting event in history. Never a gymnastics fan, I watched Beth Tweddle win gold at ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Asia's students weigh up college options BBC News By Mukul Devichand BBC News, Delhi and Kuala Lumpur Families in Asia desperate to get a college education for their children are considering a variety of expensive options - including sending them to a local branch of a British or Australian university ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Will.i.am announced as a coach on BBC One's The Voice Radio 1 Will.i.am will be a coach on The Voice UK, it has been announced. The Black Eyed Peas member joins British singer Jessie J on the judging panel for the series, which will launch on BBC One in the New Year. The 36-year-old, whose real name is William... See all stories on this topic » Radio 1

Top Gear: BBC Announces Air Date for Top Gear Christmas Special and Releases ... Anglotopia.net The BBC has announced the air date for the Top Gear Christmas special – it will air on December 28th at 8pm on BBC2 and BBCHD. It will be a 90 minute long show. No word yet as to when it will air in the USA – but will probably be next year sometime. ... See all stories on this topic »

British firm creates game controlled through urinal USA Today By Brett Molina, USA TODAY British company Captive Media has developed the firstvideo game based inside a men's urinal. BBC has full details. The game is "controlled" when a user relieves himself in the urinal. "The user is presented with three ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Gang attacks Afghan family with acid USA Today By Melanie Eversley, USA TODAY Gang members sprayed an Afghan family of five with skin-burning acid after the father refused to give his daughter up for marriage to one of the members, BBC News is reporting. The angry suitor and other members of a ... See all stories on this topic »

Soccer bedfellow: USA, Japan - Part 2 FOXSports.com John Deurden resides in East Asia and has been called 'The Voice of Asian Football' by BBC Radio. He covers football on the giant continent for The Guardian, Sports Illustrated, FourFourTwo, the Associated Press and a number of newspapers and sites... See all stories on this topic » FOXSports.com

Iranian students storm British Embassy in Tehran USA Today Update at 8:02 am ET: The official Iranian news agency IRNA sent out this urgent report: "The UK Embassy in Tehran has been stormed by a group of Iranian students." Update at 7:44 am ET: The BBC reports that demonstrators were shown live on Iranian... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Norwegian charged in shooting massacre declared insane USA Today By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY Psychiatrists who have examined the Norwegian man charged with killing 77 people in a shooting rampage in July have concluded that he is insane, the BBC reports. The psychiatrists concluded that Anders Behring Breivik, ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Golden Globes go to unusual TV fare Los Angeles Times "The Emmys are a little more mainstream and populist, whereas the Golden Globes sometimes tend to observe more niche programming because of the nature of their voting body and process," says the BBC's Simon, who notes that his network has even changed ... See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

Friday Papers: Draghi hints at eurozone aid plan Citywire.co.uk The Daily Telegraph: Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander fear the official cost of UK banking reforms is too low, Government documents revealed on Thursday. The Daily Telegraph: Sir Michael Lyons, the former chairman of the BBC Trust, has enjoyed a ... See all stories on this topic »

Rewind to 2002 Welsh Dragon roars ESPN Ahead of the kick-off, world-famous tenor Bryn Terfel sung the national anthem and, after weeks of build-up in the press, the atmosphere was ''fervent and furious'' according to the BBC report. Wales had only played the then three-time World Cup ... See all stories on this topic » ESPN

Medical insurance news - First official stem cell trial stopped Usay Compare According to BBC News' medical correspondent Fergus Walsh, it is understood the postponement of the trial is purely a financial decision and the company will cut its workforce by more than a third as a result. The organisation's submission to the US ... See all stories on this topic »

Redistricting threatens effective representation! Janesville Gazette (blog) World news on BBC this morning is emphasizing the elections in these 2 nations. WE THE PEOPLE of the US have a basic principle that elections are very significant for legitimate governance. ELECTIONS are key to representative government! ... See all stories on this topic »

FISKER KARMA LANDS DOUBLE HONORS AT 2011 BBC TOP GEAR AWARDS, INCLUDING ... CisionWire (press release) Anaheim, California, USA – December 1, 2011: The Fisker Karma has been crowned 'Luxury Car of the Year' by BBC Top Gear magazine and 'Car of the Year' by Top Gear TV presenter, James May. The Karma – Fisker's first production car – is a 403 hp luxury ... See all stories on this topic »

Gratuitous attack by NATO will prove costly for USA PakTribune.com The US kept up the pressure on Pakistan to launch an operation in NW and its think tanks as well as BBC kept their guns focused on Pak Army and ISI. The US Senators and Congressmen remained in an aggressive mood. Amidst charged atmosphere, Pakistan was ... See all stories on this topic » PakTribune.com

Jonathan King: 'My book's an online hit, millions click on my videos. How ... The Independent When the BBC edited out his performance last April, King wrote to the director general, Mark Thompson, to complain. "I know Mark," he says. "I know everybody. He was a junior producer in America when I was presenting Entertainment USA , which was the ... See all stories on this topic »

British film director Ken Russell dies at 84 USA Today He then studied photography, for which he did have a talent, and became a fashion photographer before being hired to work on BBC arts programs, including profiles of the poet John Betjeman, comedian Spike Milligan and playwright Shelagh Delaney. ... See all stories on this topic » USA Today

Sailing Round Immigration Laws Wall Street Journal (blog) In the 1960s off the coast of Britain pirate radio ships provided a commercial alternative to the BBC'slegal monopoly. They were eventually forced off the air by a law which made it illegal to supply or advertise with the stations. ... See all stories on this topic »

Fleming: Spy Who Came In From Bermuda Bernews In his just released Oxford Unversity Press book, award-winning former BBC producer Mr. Rankin says while the US first objected to the censorship system, the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] soon realised how useful the Bermuda operation was when... See all stories on this topic » Bernews

Uganda: Global Events Playing Part in Local Economic Condition AllAfrica.com ... magazines and being an avid radio listener was always listening to BBC and explained the worldevents to the only captivated /interested audience he had - me. Daddy and I belonged to the Conservative party in UK and we were Republicans in the US. ... See all stories on this topic »

Meeting the challenges of AIDS with fewer financial resources UNICEF (press release) BBC Contributing Correspondent Jane O'Brien moderated the discussion. Craig McClure cited the “amazing progress” made for children affected by HIV, especially in the last decade, but said that more must still be done. “For example,” he said, ... See all stories on this topic » UNICEF (press release)

German Pope, Italian Central Banker Auburn Journal He stated this in a rousing interview on the BBC's TV network. Here is the segment. He made two crucial points – points that stock market investors are ignoring. First, over the last nine years, there has been an increase of world debt from $80 ... See all stories on this topic »

10 CD box sets worth a listen USA Today BBC Radio sessions and rare remixes are included, as is a previously unreleased 45-minute concert recorded in 1974 at Atlanta's Electric Ballroom during UFO's first US tour. The recently unearthed and remixed tapes contain an eight-minute version of ... See all stories on this topic »

Progressive tenses: Strikes are happening in UK The English Blog (blog) George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said in a BBC interview: I'm not picking a fight with anyone. I'm trying to deal with this country's debts that were racked up in the good years and unfortunately, now that we are in the difficult years, ... See all stories on this topic »

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