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Mishal Husain to conduct major interview w Malala Yousafzai
Thursday, 2 May 2013, 3:48 pm | BBC World News
The BBC’s Mishal Husain will do the first interview with Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban in October. The BBC team will be filming with Malala as she visits the United Nations to speak ... More >>
U.S 2012 - BBC Global News Special
Friday, 19 October 2012, 11:39 am | BBC World News
In a period in which two global events will see the transition of power decided in two of the world’s most powerful nations – the U.S Presidential Elections and the 18th National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China - BBC Global ... More >>
BBC World Service Celebrates Diamond Jubilee
Wednesday, 23 May 2012, 10:43 am | BBC World News
PRESS RELEASE BBC World Service Celebrates Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee 22 May 2012 . To mark 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign BBC World Service will broadcast a number of programmes to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee year. The ... More >>
Public Narrowly Backs UN Recognition of Palestine:GlobalPoll
Monday, 19 September 2011, 3:56 pm | BBC World News
As debate continues over whether the Palestinians should ask for a UN resolution recognising Palestine as an independent state, a new global poll for BBC World Service reveals that, in all 19 countries surveyed, more citizens would prefer to see their ... More >>
Aung San Suu Kyi's first Reith Lecture: Securing Freedom
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 3:56 pm | BBC World News
To be speaking to you now, through the BBC, has a very special meaning for me. It means that, once again, I am officially a free person. When I was officially un-free - that is to say when I was under house arrest - it was the BBC that spoke to me. ... More >>
4 Weeks Left for Nominations for $20k World Challenge Prize
Friday, 20 May 2011, 12:06 pm | BBC World News
Nominations will close on 19 June for the seventh annual World Challenge competition, which rewards projects and small businesses around the world showing enterprise and innovation. More >>
World Challenge: Nominations Open for Seventh Year
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 9:52 am | BBC World News
London, 28 March, 2011. Nominations have now opened for the seventh annual World Challenge competition, which rewards projects and small businesses around the world showing enterprise and innovation. More >>
Guatemala first lady Sandra Torres confirms divorce
Friday, 25 March 2011, 3:50 pm | BBC World News
Guatemala's First Lady, Sandra Torres de Colom, has confirmed that she is divorcing president Alvaro Colom so she can stand for election to succeed him. More >>
Scientists build the world's first anti-laser
Friday, 18 February 2011, 11:20 am | BBC World News
Physicists have built the world's first device that can cancel out a laser beam - a so-called anti-laser. More >>
Life sentence for Russell Defreitas in JFK bomb plot
Friday, 18 February 2011, 11:04 am | BBC World News
A man convicted of potting to blow up fuel tanks at New York's JFK Airport has been sentenced to life in prison. More >>
Somali pirate sentenced to 33 years in US prison
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 11:43 am | BBC World News
A Somali man who pleaded guilty to piracy has been sentenced in the US to more than 33 years in prison. More >>
Food prices at dangerous levels, says World Bank
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 3:55 pm | BBC World News
The World Bank says food prices are at "dangerous levels" and have pushed 44 million more people into poverty since last June. More >>
US immigration agent shot dead in Mexico attack
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 3:31 pm | BBC World News
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been shot dead and a second wounded in Mexico. More >>
Yemen protests: Sanaa sees fifth day of demonstrations
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 12:07 pm | BBC World News
Security forces in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, have used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to stand down. More >>
Stuxnet virus targets and spread revealed
Wednesday, 16 February 2011, 11:58 am | BBC World News
A powerful internet worm repeatedly targeted five industrial facilities in Iran over 10 months, ongoing analysis by security researchers shows. More >>
Haiti cholera challenge 'failed' by agencies
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 11:58 am | BBC World News
The cholera outbreak that has killed 3,600 people in Haiti since October 2010 has not been suppressed - despite billions of dollars in promised aid, according to a report by Haitian and US researchers. More >>
Chevron fined for Amazon pollution by Ecuador court
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 11:45 am | BBC World News
A court in Ecuador has fined US oil giant Chevron a reported $8bn (£5bn) for polluting a large part of the country's Amazon region. More >>
China and Colombia announce 'alternative Panama Canal'
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 11:30 am | BBC World News
Colombia has announced it is negotiating with China to build an alternative to the Panama Canal. More >>
Seven charged by US with conspiring to aid Taliban
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 11:09 am | BBC World News
Seven people, including two Americans, have been charged with conspiring to aid the Afghan Taliban by selling the militant group weapons and moving drugs through West Africa, US officials say. More >>
Boeing unveils new 747-8 Intercontinental
Monday, 14 February 2011, 3:09 pm | BBC World News
The 747-8 Intercontinental will seat 467 passengers - 51 more than the current 747 - while burning less fuel, the firm says. More >>
