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BBC in hot water over 'pandagate' sexism row

LONDON- It was intended as a lighthearted addition to an otherwise serious list of women who made the headlines in 2011. But the BBC's inclusion of a panda in its "faces of the year" has kicked up a...

Britain's Times names Tunisian fruit seller 'person of 2011'

LONDON- The Times newspaper in London on Wednesday named Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian fruit seller who unwittingly started a wave of protests known as the Arab Spring, as its person of 2011. The...

Death of 'monstrous killer' may not help NKorea: British press

LONDON- Hopes for transformation in North Korea following the death of "monstrous" leader Kim Jong-Il remain remote, with China being the impoverished nation's best hope for delivering stability,...

British writer Christopher Hitchens dead at 62

WASHINGTON, Arthur MacMillan- Renowned and provocative British writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, whose targets ranged from God and Mother Teresa to Henry Kissinger, has died after an...

Singer Church, Blair aide due at British tabloid inquiry

LONDON, Danny Kemp - Britain's tabloids are braced for more damaging celebrity testimony this week at a public inquiry that has turned the tables on Fleet Street and could lead to major changes in...

British paper turns readers into newshounds

"The immediate reaction from other journalists was to say it seemed like insanity," science editor James Randerson told AFP in the Guardian's cavernous newsroom. "Competitors are going to see what...

Death threats force French 'Mohammed' paper offline

PARIS- The website of the French satirical weekly that was firebombed after publishing images of the Prophet Mohammed was offline Thursday because of death threats against the Belgian company hosting...

Tunisia's Islamist party condemns attack on chief

About 100 men described by witnesses as members of the ultra-conservative Salafist sect firebombed the home of Nessma private television chief Nabil Karoui late Friday in protest at the airing of a...

Tunisia police teargas protest at 'blasphemous', TV station

TUNIS- Tunisian extremists fire-bombed the home of a TV station chief Friday, hours after militants protesting its broadcast of a film they say violated Islamic values clashed with police in the...

Tunisia TV station apologises for showing God in broadcast

The offending scene concerns an old, bearded image of God, of whom all depictions are forbidden by Islam. "I am sorry for all the people who were disturbed by this sequence, which also shocked...
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