Today: BBC World News, Mar 09, 2012

Search

ALS, Alexander Language Schools Franchise


Mar 9, 2012

BBC World News, Mar 09, 2012

New Seasons of "The Graham Norton Show," "The Thick of It" Due in April on BBC ...
The Futon Critic
Twitter: #NoKitchenRequired Richard Hammond, host of the world's biggest car show Top Gear, takes the ultimate driving test in BBC AMERICA's new original series Richard Hammond's Crash Course. As he travels across theUS, Hammond learns how to operate ...
See all stories on this topic »
Nigeria deaths: Italy demands UK answers on hostage rescue bid
BBC News
UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said Rome had been told of intelligence behind the rescue attempt and informed "as the decision was taken to act". Mr Hammond told the BBC News Channel that the attempted rescue had been launched after information ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
World seabird numbers still falling, says a new review
BBC News
Prof John Croxall, Chair of BirdLife's Global Seabird Programme, told the BBC: "They are top predators in their marine systems. The fact that almost a third are globally threatened should really be telling us something about how we need to look after ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Britain's Got Talent 'will launch against The Voice'
BBC News
ITV's new series of Britain's Got Talent is to launch on the same night as BBC's brand new flagship show The Voice UK, according to Alesha Dixon. Appearing on Thursday's edition of Lorraine Kelly's ITV show, Dixon - who quit Strictly Come Dancing to ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Report: BBC Working on an iTunes Competitor
PC Magazine
Currently, the iPlayer can be accessed via the Xbox 360 and PlayStation consoles, and UK viewers can download the BBC iPlayer for iPad, iPhone and Android devices, but the mobile app remains unavailable for US consumers. Having gone through a number of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Celebrating Colossus, the codebreaking computer
BBC News
By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News The codes cracked by the device helped ensure the success of the Normandy invasion that led to the Allied victory in World War II. Colossus is regarded as being the world's first digital, ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
BBC Plans iTunes Competitor With Download Fees For New And Old Shows
paidContent.org
The BBC is developing a radical scheme under which UK viewers would pay to download new and old BBC TV shows from a service it hopes will compete with iTunes. paidContent has learned the BBC executive wants to make all its shows available as ...
See all stories on this topic »
UK 'must plan for euro collapse'
BBC News
"We need a public debate on the sort of country we want the UK to be in future and whether our ambitions are realistic, given how much we are prepared to spend." She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that while the National Security Strategy was ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Greece to secure debt swap deal, says official
BBC News
A Greek official told the BBC that more than 80% of bondholders had agreed to the plan, above the threshold required for Athens to be able to push through the deal. Greece needs to carry out the debt swap before it gets a second bailout.
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Adoption: David Cameron says 'young lives wasted' by delays
BBC News
By Angela Harrison BBC News The prime minister will vow to tackle "absurd barriers to mixed-race adoption", when he sets out proposals to speed up adoptions in England later. David Cameron will say "young lives are being wasted while the process takes ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
The Voice set for Saturday night standoff against Britain's Got Talent
The Guardian
But hostilities have already broken out between the BBC and ITV over the scheduling of The Voice and Britain's Got Talent. BBC1's big new hope for Saturday night, The Voice, will launch on 24 March, the same night as the return of Simon Cowell's ...
See all stories on this topic »

The Guardian
BBC Planning iTunes Competitor for TV Shows [REPORT]
Mashable
In addition to new shows, many of which are currently available for streaming in various countries via BBC iPlayer, the 85-year-old UK broadcaster wants to put big chunks of its archive online as well. The BBC is reportedly in negotiations with several ...
See all stories on this topic »
Why the future of boxing needs debating - Part II
Mirror.co.uk
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend a debate chaired by theBBC on the future of boxing. My blog on this site the following day discussed the fallout from the David Haye/Dereck Chisora incident. That now-infamous matter was far from the only ...
See all stories on this topic »

Mirror.co.uk
Solar storm passes without incident so far
BBC News
"The part of the Sun where this came from is still active," Dr Kerridge told BBC News. "It's a 27-day cycle and we're right in the middle of it, so it is coming straight at us and will be for a few days yet. We could see more material," he explained.
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Clive James on... Upstairs Downstairs, Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture, and ...
Telegraph.co.uk
By Clive James In Upstairs, Downstairs (BBC One) Ed Stoppard makes a believable head of the grand household, but unfortunately he is not always in the grand household: he is in places like Munich, trying to stop Hitler.
See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk
Q & A: Adoption
BBC News
The BBC News website looks at some of the facts and issues involved. Last year, there were more than 65000 children in care in England. The number has risen significantly in the past few years, particularly since the death of Peter Connelly, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Nigeria rescue bid: Kidnapped Briton and Italian killed
BBC News
The BBC's Gordon Corera said UK troops "were first in" and shot a kidnapper but it was too late to save the men. Gunmen seized the two engineers in Birnin Kebbi city on 12 May 2011. A video was released to news media last year that appeared to show the ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Barclays chief Bob Diamond 'not bank's top earner'
BBC News
The highest-paid RBS staff member is Ellen Alemany, who heads the firm's US business, according to the BBC's business editor Robert Peston. In January, RBS chief executive Stephen Hester waived his £963000 bonus following an outcry from MPs.
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Daily Record sales up in February
BBC News
By Jamie McIvor BBC Scotland correspondent The Daily Record has seen its sales jump as readers follow the twists and turns of the crisis at Ibrox, according to the latest sales figures. The Record saw its circulation jump to 291000 last month.
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Pupils ask search engines ahead of parents, survey says
BBC News
By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Children in the UK prefer using Google to asking their parents or teachers when they have a question, a snapshot survey suggests. Some 54% of the 500 children asked said Google and other search engines ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
BBC rumoured to be working on digital download store
Digital Spy UK
The as-yet-unannounced Project Barcelona could mark a radical shift in the way BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, monetises the corporation's huge archive of content in the digital world. All households in theUK already pay an £145.50 ...
See all stories on this topic »
Could Irish history offer answers in the Scottish Independence debate?
BBC News
By Stephen Walker BBC NI political reporter People in Scotland have two years to make up their minds over the arguments for and against independence. As they consider that question, are there any lessons to be learned from Irish history? In a BBC Radio ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
[an error occurred while processing this directive]
BBC News
The US rap star will play at London's Hackney Marshes on Saturday 23 June. Jay-Z is touring the UK with Kanye West in May and June in support of their joint album Watch The Throne and became a father for the first time this year.
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Islington pupils fly to US to meet Michelle Obama
BBC News
... three years ago on an official visit to the UK and since then the bond has only got stronger. Now, 12 pupils from the north London school are jetting off to see Michelle Obama at the White House for a trip of a lifetime. The BBC's Nick Beake talks ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
UK's Watch picks up Omnifilm's 'Primeval': Show was greenlit by Canadian ...
Chicago Tribune
LONDON -- UK pay web Watch, part of the UKTV channel lineup, has acquired the North American version of fantasy skein "Primeval," originally created by Blighty's Impossible Pictures. Production bowed in Vancouver March 7 on the 13-part "Primeval: New ...
See all stories on this topic »
From happy families to Hackney: Jay-Z to headline BBC Radio 1's Olympic ...
Mirror.co.uk
Hopefully the BBC aren't planning a name-trend and decide to book Jay Kay as another headliner for the second night - June 24 - will be announced over the coming weeks. Registration for ticket applications continues until March 19 atbbc.co.uk/radio1, ...
See all stories on this topic »
Mark Lawrenson's Premier League predictions
BBC Sport
BBC Sport football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest pundit each week this season. His opponent for this weekend's Premier League games is NBA legend and former United States Dream Team star Clyde Drexler, visiting the ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC Sport
Elected mayors: Cities Minister 'not surprised' at poll findings
BBC News
An opinion poll conducted by Gfk NOP for the BBC suggested that almost two-thirds of respondents did not know there was going to be a referendum. The company surveyed 500 people each in Leeds, Sheffield, Bradford, Wakefield and Doncaster.
See all stories on this topic »
Mr Tilbrook says the biggest parties would not even mention the word "England"
BBC News
Ahead of the party's spring conference in Kent on Saturday, Robin Tilbrook told the BBC the biggest parties were unwilling to address the issue. The party will launch its local elections campaign at the conference. Mr Tilbrook, who is standing for ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
Douglas Adams loved ideas, but hated writing, says Terry Jones
BBC News
By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBCNews Monty Python star Terry Jones remembers his friend Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, who would have been 60 this weekend. "He was such a brilliant writer," says ...
See all stories on this topic »

BBC News
March 9
By John Brown
Heritage Foundation evaluation declares that VOA Persian News Network "is not up to the task" - Kim Andrew Elliott reporting on International Broadcasting: [Elliott comments on the evaluation]: "US international broadcasting can be an asset ... Is the BBC on-air talent better? Does BBC do a more thorough job of covering Iranian affairs? Does BBC do a better job of avoiding bias? And why is it so difficult for US international broadcasting to recruit Farsi speakers who also happen to be ...
Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review
BBC News - Obama warns of force against Iran, but urges diplomacy
President Barack Obama says the US "will not hesitate" to use force to stop Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, but says diplomacy could still succeed. Addressing ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17251279
BBC News - Netanyahu talks tough in Obama Iran meeting
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tells US President Barack Obama that Israel must always remain "master of its fate", as they meet for key talks on Iran.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17260083
BBC News - Obama warns against pre-emptive Iran strike
US President Barack Obama has said it would be unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, but warned against a pre-emptive strike on the country.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17236549
BBC News - Egypt 'lifts' travel ban on US NGO workers
Egypt has lifted a travel ban on seven US democracy activists accused of trying to foment unrest in the country, judicial officials in Cairo have said. They are ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17210327
BBC News - Iran urged to enter 'serious' nuclear dialogue
Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip tobbc. co.uk search ... Six world powers have urged Iran to enter "serious dialogue" on its nuclear ... The US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China called on Iran to ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17295189
BBC News - Fresh Iran nuclear talks agreed with world powers - EU
Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ...US President Barack Obama told a news conference in Washington DC that he ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17274364
BBC News - Analysis: How Israel might strike at Iran
Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip tobbc. co.uk ... With the US military gone, the Iraqi authorities are far less able to monitor and ... Douglas Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace at theInternational ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17115643
BBC News - BBC Persian TV audience doubles to six million
Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to ...The research is published as the BBC World Service celebrates its 80th ... of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors' International Audience Research Program.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17200494
BBC News - At least 28 dead as tornadoes sweep across US states
A series of powerful storms and tornadoes have killed at least 28 people in theUS states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, officials say. Local police confirmed that ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17236495
BBC News - Pentagon commander says US special forces in India
US special forces are present in five South Asian countries, including India, a top Pentagon commander has revealed. US Pacific Commander Admiral Robert ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17229395
BBC News - US Midwest storm leaves 12 dead and dozens injured
Twelve people die and dozens are injured as a storm hits the US Midwest, bringing devastation to parts of Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee and Kansas.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17210325
BBC News - Israel warns time short to stop Iranian nuclear plans
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu tells a pro-Israel US lobby time is running out to... Skip to content; Skip to local navigation; Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation; Skip to.... After years of international pressure and the repeated failure of negotiations ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17268478
BBC News - China calls US critique on Syria "super arrogant"
China has hit out at comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on its stance on Syria. A foreign ministry spokesman called the comments unacceptable, ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17175658
BBC News - Syria crisis: Obama rejects US military intervention
President Barack Obama has described the situation in Syria as "heartbreaking" but said that unilateral US military intervention there would be a mistake.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17278802
Alexander Language Schools, Franchise Alexander Language Schools info@als-alexander.org or interalex1@yahoo.com Products and Services Surrender the Heart (Surrender to Destiny)Alexander Dictionary of English Idioms: English-FrenchUnder the SunStealing JakeAlexander Dictionary of English Idioms: English-Swedish

No comments: