Komla Dumor one of the well-known familiar faces of BBC World has died. He was just 41. He died of a heart attack in his home in London. Ghana-born Dumor was a presenter for BBC World News and its Focus on Africa programme. One of Ghana’s best-known journalists, he joined the BBC as a radio broadcaster in 2007 after a ... Read More »
Israel’s senseless air-strike on crowded Gaza locations has now claimed the life a 11-month-old boy, who was the son of a BBC Arabic correspondent. The photo of Jihad Misharawi, BBC Arabic Correspondent carrying his son’s body and crying his heart-out is really very painful to watch. This photo was published on the front page of Thursday’s Washington Post. Misharawi’s sister-in-law ... Read More »
J.K Rowling has had it with writing adult books, she has said that she will be returning back to children’s book. J.K. Rowling has announced that her next book will be for children’s! “I think probably the next thing I write, or the next thing I publish, will be for children,” Rowling told attendees at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in ... Read More »
A BBC Sports reporter Mike Sewell has claimed that he has seen a UFO when he was just outside the Hertfordshire village of Cottered, England. As reported via Yahoo, Sports reporter Mike Sewell told the Sun, “I was driving east across country about 15 to 20 miles from Stansted Airport at 4.15 in the morning and I saw this big ... Read More »
Iceland’s Grimsvotn Volcano that caused a nightmare to over 10 million aero passengers last year has started erupting once again. Though, the Meteorological Office say, the ash problem which was encountered in the year 2010 thanks to the ash from the same volcano is unlikely to take place now, the Iceland Isavia airport is taking no risk by announcing a ... Read More »
Facebook has accepted the fact that it has been raising anti-Google campaign. As reported via BBC, Facebook has confirmed that it used Burson-Marsteller to expose things which Google was doing that “raised privacy concerns”, but denied that it had authorised a smear campaign. “Instead, we wanted third parties to verify that people did not approve of the collection and use ... Read More »
BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation, which is the major public service broadcaster in the UK has plans to Slimming down its news channel to save £89 million between 2013 to 2017, says boss Mark Thompson mirror.co.uk says, Bosses may chop its annual £46million budget by “offering a slimmed-down channel focusing on developing news and headlines”. Yet it would also focus ... Read More »
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