Highlights
A collection of news and information related to BBC published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 2836
» View wsbt.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-237
•
Next >
-
Rupert Murdoch gleeful at BBC debacle in Britain
LONDON (AP) — Few seem to be enjoying the management meltdown at the venerable BBC more than Rupert Murdoch, the News Corp. chief whose rival British newspapers have been caught up in their own lengthy, embarrassing and expensive phone-hacking...Tags: Rupert Murdoch, Jimmy Savile, Journalism, News of the World, United Kingdom
-
Activist girl's dad vows she'll return to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The father of a 15-year-old Pakistani activist girl who was shot and wounded by a Taliban gunman vowed Thursday that she would return home after finishing medical treatment abroad despite new insurgent threats against her. Since...
Tags: Shootings, Islamabad (Pakistan), Taliban, Pakistan, United Kingdom
-
Welsh restaurant sorry for serving booze to child
LONDON (AP) — A restaurant chain has apologized for accidentally serving alcohol to a toddler in Wales, calling it a case of human error. The BBC reported that 2-year-old Sonny Rees was taken to a hospital emergency room after drinking whiskey at...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics
-
TV show claims UK TV host Savile abused children
LONDON (AP) — For decades, Jimmy Savile was a fixture on British television — an eccentric, aggressively jocular host of children's shows and a tireless charity fundraiser. When he died last year at 84 — by then knighted as Sir Jimmy...Tags: Sexual Assault, Arts and Culture, United Kingdom, Charles, Prince of Wales, Television
-
BBC journalist shares newsmaking at Elkhart's Career Center
ELKHART – A BBC journalist made a special trip from England to Elkhart to talk about his work with students at the Career Center. Richard Greenaway is from Bristol, England and got to know people in Bristol, Indiana a few years ago. He says he fell...
-
TV series follows electric car on 16,000-mile trip
FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — An eight-part BBC series that begins airing Saturday follows an electric car on its 16,000-mile trip from Alaska to Argentina. In "Racing Green," filmmaker Claudio van Planta follows postgraduate engineering students...Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Trips and Vacations, Argentina, Travel, Entertainment
-
BBC 'sorry' for anti-Mexican remarks on 'Top Gear'
LONDON (AP) — The BBC has apologized to Mexico's ambassador for remarks on its "Top Gear" program that described Mexicans as lazy. The BBC wrote to Ambassador Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza on Thursday, saying that national stereotyping is part of...Tags: Politics, Mexico, Diplomacy, United Kingdom
-
Palace nixes 3D TV broadcast of UK royal wedding
LONDON (AP) — Palace authorities say Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding will not be filmed in 3D because of the space needed for the format's cameras and relatively small demand. Some British broadcasters had hoped to use the technology...Tags: Christianity, United Kingdom, Marriage, Human Interest, Charles, Prince of Wales
-
After London attack, Britain officials begin intelligence review
LONDON — British authorities on Thursday began combing through their intelligence files and evidence from the attack site to determine whether the apparently terrorism-related killing of a young soldier on a London street could have been prevented....
Tags: Witnesses, Government, Murder, Terrorism, United Kingdom
-
Weinstein Co. acquires Stephen Frears' latest, 'Philomena'
"Philomena," the latest film from Academy Award-nominated director Stephen Frears (“The Queen,” “The Grifters”), has been acquired by Weinstein Co. for distribution in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Spain after a...Tags: The Weinstein Company, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Steve Coogan, Cannes Film Festival
-
Two new suspects arrested in British soldier's hacking death
LONDON -- Scotland Yard has announced the arrest of two new suspects in the case of a young soldier who was hacked to death on a London street in an apparent terrorist attack. The new suspects, a man and a woman, both 29, were arrested on suspicion of...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Everest, Murder, United Kingdom, Christine Lagarde
-
Column: The many interpretations of Ben Bernanke
Reuters(Anatole Kaletsky is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) (Reuters) - On Wednesday in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke presented congressional testimony that repeated, virtually word for word, statements about U.S. monetary...Tags: Economic Policy, Ben Bernanke, Money and Monetary Policy, Lobbying, Mutual Funds
Nov 12, 2012
|Story| AP Broadcast
Oct 25, 2012
|Story| WSBT-TV
Oct 11, 2012
|Story| WSBT-TV
Oct 2, 2012
|Story| AP Broadcast
Sep 26, 2012
|Story| WSBT-TV
Jan 2, 2011
|Story| AP Broadcast
Feb 4, 2011
|Story| AP Broadcast
Feb 8, 2011
|Story| AP Broadcast
May 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Original site for BBC topic gallery.