Labeling him “a dangerous underdog” in the coming Republican scramble for the GOP’s 2016 presidential nomination with a speaking style “a cross between Atticus Finch and Tony Robbins,” BCC News begins it’s look at U.S. presidential politics with a closer look at Texas Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz.
A tidal gauge at Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, has shown that sea levels on the island are not rising. Following the immense destruction wrought by Cyclone Pam last week, in which up to 11 people lost their lives,
He has a face like a dropped pie, infuriates the righteous political left, is followed by millions of people around the world and remains a constant cause of upset and rebuke at the BBC: what’s not to like about Jeremy
The BBC Trust is worried about the relatively small number of BAME listeners who tune in to BBC’s over-35s station Radio 2. (BAME, by the way, is the latest PC term for people who aren’t white. It stands for Black
Popular Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson is calling in lawyers over a comment made by an ‘unnamed source’ which compared him to paedophile Jimmy Savile, the Express reports. Mr Clarkson, who is set to reappear on TV screens as a
Madonna is accusing Britain’s Radio 1 of ageism, describing the BBC station’s decision to pull her music from its lineup as “discriminatory and unfair.”
Suppose you were a shareholder in a leading international fast food chain – McDonalds, say – and the company’s new director of products announced that in the nutritional interests of the customers he’d now decided that, for their own good,
Media luvvies at the BBC look set to use his recent “fracas” with a producer boot out Jeremy Clarkson. The Top Gear presenter was described as having had a “child’s tantrum” after being unable to order steak at the hotel
Former Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) hostage Nicolas Henin, 39, spoke out recently about his ten months with the jihadist group. He told the BBC the militants enjoyed Teletubbies and Game of Thrones. He also claimed there were some who could not come to terms with the blood the group spills on an almost daily basis.
Citizens organized a march in Dhaka, Bangladesh, to protest the murder of American atheist blogger Avijit Roy. He was hacked to death with machetes after he received numerous threats from radical Islamists.
Margaret Thatcher considered taking over the BBC as a result of the corporation’s coverage of the 1982 Falklands war. As Prime Minister she considered the reporting to be “treacherous”, and put her Deputy under pressure to invoke emergency powers enabling
The TV License fee, which funds Britain’s state-run BBC, should be abolished, according to a report by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. The group of MPs said the fee was “becoming harder and harder to justify” in a
The BBC refused to include UKIP Member of Parliament Mark Reckless in a debate on the European Union and the ongoing Greek crisis because he is not a woman. The party has said that it will not find a woman
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is forcing residents in Raqqa, Syria, the capital of their “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq, to donate blood for their injured fighters. In January, Yazidi sex slave girls told the media the militants also forced them to donate blood.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gave a half-hour interview to the BBC on Tuesday in which he discussed, among other things, just how much his government is cooperating with the United States and its anti-ISIS coalition.
A Chinese news agency reported the country of Cyprus was ready to host Russian air and navy bases. Russian news site Lenta.ru printed the story, which was then picked up by numerous international outlets. However, on Monday, Cypriot officials denied the reports.
Non payment of the BBC licence fee will remain a criminal offence thanks to Peers in the House of Lords rejecting a government attempt to make it a civil offence. Lord Grade, a former BBC Chairman conveyed concern that there were “dark forces
Lance Armstrong defended his doping in the 1990s by asserting that many bicyclists adopted the practice, and he would do it again if given the chance.
According to the BBC, Chris Kyle shot “victims” not evil barbaric terrorists determined to take the lives of American Marines and/or innocent Iraqi civilians. In an irresponsible piece of reporting that details no facts about the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
The Spanish government raided the homes of two sets of brothers identified as Islamic State recruits, described by authorities as “highly radicalized” and plotting an attack that may have involved “self-immolation” in the West.
Ghana’s President John Mahama has said he and other African leaders will discuss plans next week to “deal permanently” with Boko Haram militants.
A shortage of women in China– triggered by a cultural desire for rearing boys and the state-imposed one-child policy, has created a fertile market for the trafficking of women and girls from Myanmar (the former Burma). Women and girls are trafficked for both forced marriage and adoption.
In the wake of an Ofcom ruling granting the UK Independence Party “major party status”, the BBC has revised its guidelines on inclusion of UKIP within political features. The changes will give the party similar levels of coverage to that
Newly-released CCTV footage appears to show the partner of Paris supermarket attacker Amedy Coulibaly arriving at an Istanbul airport in Turkey.
There are calls for BBC reporter Tim Willcox to resign after he told the daughter of holocaust survivors live on air “Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well”. A petition has been launched calling for his dismissal, whilst on
