BBC World News, Dec 16, 2011

Wikileaks: Bradley Manning military hearing begins BBC News As the hearing opened, Pte Manning's defence team asked for the investigating officer - equivalent to a judge in a civilian court - to withdraw from the case, the BBC's North America editor Mark Mardell reports from the base. Pte Manning was reported ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Sportsday Live - breaking sports news BBC Sport (blog) But wherever your allegiances lie, I want to be hearing from you. So, tweet me @bbcsport_david using the hashtag #BBCfootball or pop us a text message on 81111 (UK). BBC football commentator Nigel Adderley on Twitter: "In the Champions League rehearsal ... See all stories on this topic »

UK 'fully engaged' in eurozone deal talks BBC News However the UK will not have a vote and BBC Brussels correspondent Matthew Price said it was unlikely that the UK would be present at future meetings of the grouping, once the text of the fiscal pact was agreed. Although all other EU states apart from ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

French finance minister criticises 'worrying' UK economy BBC News "We have been watching the slow-motion train crash about to happen for some time," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One. "The plain fact is we have all got an interest in seeing an orderly resolution in all this. "Trying to distract attention to other ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Russell Brand to front US TV series for Fox BBC News Despite that, he went on to present a Big Brother spin-off show, before landing a role with the BBC as a radio DJ. But his Radio 2 show came to an end following thousands of complaints over jokes he and Jonathan Ross made about veteran actor Andrew ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Going viral Evening Standard The director, MJ Delaney, has won awards for the video and gone on to produce virals for the BBC. She has mixed feelings about the effect corporations are having on what was once a people's playground. 'The commercial-isation of the internet is coming ... See all stories on this topic » Evening Standard

Town hall attracts BBC team Camden County Tribune By Mark Beavers The executive team for a new BBC and Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) show, "Lovetown,USA," met with Camden residents Wednesday at a Lovetown Hall Meeting at the Kingsland North Center to share details about the production and answer ... See all stories on this topic »

Christmas Day Ratings war Betting: Will EastEnders be taken Downton? (Doctor... Sacramento Bee Sky Bet have installed Doctor Who as the 6/4 favourite to pull in most viewers, which would see the BBC prevail once again as the top channel on Christmas Day. Last year, the Doctor was beaten to number one by EastEnders, which attracted a million more ... See all stories on this topic »

Gillian Anderson gets under the skin of Miss Havisham in a new BBCOne ... Northampton Chronicle & Echo Anderson, no stranger to Dickens after her Emmy and Bafta-nominated turn as Lady Dedlock in the BBC's 2005 adaptation of Bleak House, plays the lonely spinster who brings her life to a standstill the day she is jilted. It seems she's really got under ... See all stories on this topic » Northampton Chronicle & Echo

Debt crisis: live Telegraph.co.uk Last year the blizzards and deep snow that swept the country caused chaos — and brought UK industry to its knees. 11.17 George Magnus, senior economic adviser at UBS, is trying to look on the bright side. He told BBC's Today programme: The one glimmer ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

Apple iTunes match music service launches with outage BBC News "We believe that it creates a great and seamless experience for music buyers that will ultimately see increased sales and digital conversion," Paul Smernicki, director of digital for Universal MusicUK, told the BBC. Analysts had originally thought it ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

MasterChef: The Professionals final serves 3.5m viewers The Guardian The show, won by Ash Mair, drew a 14.6% share of the audience between 8pm and 9pm on Thursday, including 216000 viewers on the BBC HD channel. It cooked up more than twice as many viewers compared to the second part of Kevin's Grand Design on Channel 4 ... See all stories on this topic »

Phillip Cottrell - Source: BBC TVNZ Many of Phil's former colleagues in the UK have also been deeply affected, joining the chorus of tributes and condolences in recent days. "As some of you may know, before joining Radio New Zealand six years ago, Phil worked with the BBC in Scotland. ... See all stories on this topic »

DC Thomson's Friends Reunited continues fall in value BBC News By Douglas Fraser BBC Scotland Business and Economy Editor Friends Reunited, the social networking site, is reckoned to have an asset value of only a fifth of the sum paid for it two years ago by Dundee publishing company DC Thomson. ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

Steve Bell on the US troop departure from Iraq The Guardian I am thoroughly pissed off with the BBC and its fawning unquestioning support of this Coalition......For good measure, why don't the BBC as part of the Opening Ceremony send a Trident Missile Sub sailing down the Thames, with Kirsty Wark up to her eyes ... See all stories on this topic »

Western business 'lagging behind' in social media BBC News The firm's chief executive, Thierry Breton, told the BBC that his employees were wasting hours of their time checking messages which were not useful, fearful of missing something important. The company is already carrying out trials of instant... See all stories on this topic »

Chief Minister backs Cavendish for BBC Sports Award isleofman.com CHIEF Minister Allan Bell MHK has urged the Manx public to get behind Mark Cavendish in the contest to be crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2011. “With his magnificent achievements over the past 12 months, Mark continues to be an ... See all stories on this topic » isleofman.com

UK Launches Historic Project to Make Its Paintings Available Online to All ... ARTINFO Launched last June, the online archive Your Paintings, the fruit of a collaboration between the Public Catalogue Foundation and the BBC, has announced today that it had added 40000 paintings to the initial upload, bringing the total number of paintings ... See all stories on this topic » ARTINFO

Peter Thiel: Your questions answered BBC News We're facing the biggest youth unemployment crisis in a generation, according to the International Labour Organisation. All this week the BBC is focusing on the lost generation of young people and what's being done to generate jobs. ... See all stories on this topic » BBC News

'Doctor Who' Cast Shakeup: Amy And Rory To Leave The TARDIS Huffington Post If that happens, we'd likely see a half-dozen or so "Doctor Who" episodes next fall, and another six or seven hours some time in 2013 -- which is, as it happens, the 50th anniversary of the storied sci-fi franchise. No doubt the BBC and BBC America... See all stories on this topic »

MORE ON THE STORY RT Who in this world is after resources of other nations? russia or usa? who destroyed afghanistan, iraq, libya?russia? now nuts like "@jimbo" should first get out of their CNN and BBC propaganda tools and see reality as it is. ... See all stories on this topic »

"We'd rather go out with a whimper": The Drums talk to Skiddle Skiddle.com Brooklyn's The Drums have made quite a racket since they cruised into our consciousness with a BBC Sound of 2010 nomination and the catchy debut single 'Let's Go Surfing' in 2009. With their self titled debut album charting in the UK top 20 in 2010, ... See all stories on this topic » Skiddle.com

UK to provide 13500 troops to guard Olympics Reuters "Every Olympics since Atlanta (1996) has had a significant military component around its security," Hammond told BBC TV. "Our allies and our friends would expect us to deliver the same in London and I think both the London public and Olympic ... See all stories on this topic »

Roger Waters Talks Arab Spring, Obama and the Future of 'The Wall' Tour RollingStone.com You've traveled the world this year on your Wall tour. Have you seen things that have made you optimistic about the future? I tend tosee it more sitting at my Mac at home. I check out bbc.co.uk and Isee what's news and who's doing what. ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Google awarded US patent for self-driving car Digital Spy The firm's intellectual property rights refer to a method of switching a vehicle from human-control to a state where the vehicle drives itself, reports BBC News. Google's patent, for "Transitioning a Mixed-mode Vehicle to Autonomous Mode", ... See all stories on this topic »

BBC America's Dramaville Receives Four Golden Globe Nominations TVbytheNumbers A second series of The Hour has already been commissioned, and is set to air on BBC AMERICA next year. The 69 th Annual Golden Globe ® Awards will be telecast live on NBC on Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 5pm PT/8pmET. BBC AMERICA delivers US audiences ... See all stories on this topic » TVbytheNumbers

About this article The Guardian As a third of the workforce at the MediaCity Oasis Academy in Salford lose their jobs, the Nasuwt teaching union accuses the management of mismanaging its budget by hiring expensive senior staff and consultants, reports the BBC. ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Syria Coverage Update: BBC Reporter was Detained & Prevented from Covering US... OpEdNews Impressively, despite far more serious pressure from the government, reporters in Turkey provided detailed coverage of the story I broke here in the US . One extensively reported story had to do with BBC reporter John Simpson, who went to Turkey to ... See all stories on this topic »

High Tide: From The 'See No Evil' Defense To A Lokpal Impasse Wall Street Journal (blog) (BBC, BBC, Hindustan Times) Corruption cases have cost Maine taxpayers $800000 in the past five years. More here and here. (Bangor Daily News, Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, State Integrity) Four jockeys were banned by the British ... See all stories on this topic »

Mosaic News - 12/14/11: Egyptians Vote in Second Round of Elections linktv Today's headlines in full: Egyptians seek more 'balanced' vote in second round of parliamentary elections BBC Arabic, UK Iraqi city celebrates pullout of US troops Press TV, Iran Obama's speech at Fort Bragg marks end of Iraq war Press TV, ... See all stories on this topic »

Radiohead tour to take place in summer 2012? Viagogo A Radiohead tour involving the band playing arenas around the UKcould be set to take place next summer, Ed O'Brien has hinted. The guitarist and backing singer for the band told BBC 6 Music that an arena tour "feels appropriate" at the moment. ... See all stories on this topic » Viagogo

Can Hollywood's 'Tattoo' capture Sweden's dark side? The Local.se Kenneth Branagh's English version of Wallander may have received more publicity, but the original Swedish films based on Menkel's books, shown subtitled, have gained cult status after being aired on the BBC. And when it comes to The Killing, ... See all stories on this topic » The Local.se

BBC News - Lucha libre in the US: The wrestler who taunts Latino fans Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ...RJ Brewer explains his views in a promotional video for Lucha Libre USA ...immigration measures, and who many Hispanic Americans see as a real-life villain.... "We create characters that have to do with what's going on in the real world and... www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16097158

BBC News - USA 'not putting more money into IMF', says Andrew Neil Accessibility links. Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uknavigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk search; Help · Accessibility Help ... More clips andnews on our BBC website; 'like' us on Facebook page; follow us on Twitter ... Play One-minute World News ... Watch 'Iraq will be tested after US goes' Zalmay Khalilzad ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16161902

BBC News - Iran shows film of captured US drone Iranian TV shows the first video footage of an advanced unmanned US drone ...Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip tobbc. co.uk .... World News Watch · 10: Morocco's new mall divides opinionWatch ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562

BBC News - Iran ex-FBI hostage Robert Levinson appears in video Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ...Mr Levinson's family, of Coral Springs, Florida, have had the video since November 2010. ... "Please tell us your demands so we can work together to bring my father home safely ... The newspaper article that changed world history ... Click Watch... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16115861

BBC News - Iraqis look ahead to US ... With just a few weeks until all US service personnel will have withdrawn from ... Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ... Mid-East · Business · Health · Sci/Environment · Tech · Entertainment · Video ... Watch Lawyer feared hacking cover-up News of the World legal manager Tom Crone ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16135046

BBC News - Iran shows off captured US drone on state television Iranian TV has shown the video footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it downed late last week. ... Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk search; Help ... Play One-minuteWorld News ... Watch 'Miracle baby' to be sent home Melinda Star Guido ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16103467

BBC News - Eurozone: US ... The US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has been meeting the Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. ... Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uknavigation; Skip to ... Expressing support for the new government in Rome, he said "the world can be ...Watch US officer parks car on lamppost Car on lamppost... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16089779

BBC News - US police officer parks car on lamppost A police officer in the US state of Florida has accidentally driven his patrol car into the tension rod of a ... Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uknavigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk search; Help · Accessibility Help ... Play One-minuteWorld News ... Watch 'Iraq will be tested after US goes' Zalmay Khalilzad ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16173757

BBC News - Thailand jails US man for ... Thailand has jailed a US citizen for two and a half years after he admitted posting ... Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ... Play One-minute World News · Play Dinosaur bone unearthed in garden. US & Canada. Watch Photojournalism pioneer Life's 75 years Photograph by Alfred ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16086109

BBC News - US President Barack Obama's Texas Kansas slip-up US President Barack Obama slipped up when he opened his speech in Kansas, saying it was great to be ... Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip tobbc.co .uk navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk search; Help · Accessibility Help ... Play One- minute World News ... Watch Canada withdraws from Kyoto pact Industrial chimney ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16061134

BBC News - Iran's defence minister says the US drone is now theirs A US drone which was brought down by Iranians over a week ago has created ...Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16184866

BBC World News to Be Available Through Comcast The way some at the BBC see the television world, Fox News and MSNBC are occupying partisan poles; CNN is struggling to choose between substance and ... www.nytimes.com/.../bbc-world-news-to-be-available-through...

Oil cyber-attacks could cost lives, Shell warns Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ...Ludolf Luehmann, an IT manager for Shell, told the World Petroleum ... He added: "We see an increasing number of attacks on our IT systems and ... Skyrim wins top prize in the Spike Video Game Awards, but PlayStation ... About BBC News... www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16137573

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