Some of the BBC's most prominent female journalists and TV presenters are banding together to demand that the broadcaster fix its wide gender pay gap immediately rather than in several years as management has proposed. TV personalities including Clare Balding, Victoria Derbyshire and others wrote ...
This is the happiest time in the history of the world, and Japan is among the happiest of countries. That should be true. It's not, obviously. Why? Globally, prosperity is wider spread and poverty less abysmal than ever before. Technology enables not only the mighty few ...
Volcanic rocks and steam injured at least 10 people, including tourists and a scientist, following an explosion on Sicily's Mount Etna on Thursday, witnesses and media reported. The tourists, who were drawn to Etna to observe the spectacle of the active volcano erupting, were caught ...
A crew of BBC reporters in China were attacked by a mob and later forced to sign a police confession for attempting an "illegal interview," the British broadcaster said Friday. The journalists were trying to reach a woman who claims her father was killed during ...
Lunch with a former Premier League referee was going well until the chat about his forthcoming holiday was interrupted by another customer. "You didn't give Arsenal a penalty in 2011 against Manchester United. It was nailed on. You cost us three points," he told ...
Japanese TV celebrity Mao Kobayashi, who has been fighting breast cancer for about two years, has been named in the 2016 edition of the BBC's 100 Women list. Kobayashi, 34, who has been married to kabuki star Ichikawa Ebizo since 2010, was chosen because she ...
Chinese websites are censoring the nickname "Kim Fatty the Third," widely used to disparage North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, after officials from his country reportedly conveyed their displeasure in a meeting with their Chinese counterparts. Searches for the Chinese words "Jin San Pang" on ...
It's so long to Big Ben's bongs — at least temporarily. British officials announced Tuesday that the famous bell of Parliament will fall silent for several months during repairs to its crumbling clock tower. The work, due to begin in January 2017 and last three years, ...
Like many things, journalism used to have a gravitas that has all but disappeared from today's media. That point is brought home in "The Eichmann Show," a BBC film about what is deemed the first globally broadcast televised documentary. In 1961, American producer Milton Fruchtman ...
A downtrodden wife tries to leave her abusive husband but in the course of a confrontation ends up stabbing him in front of her young son. The case makes front-page news, stirs a moral debate and prompts a spike in donations to domestic abuse charities. The ...
Terry Wogan, whose warm Irish brogue and sly, gentle humor made him a star of British television and radio for decades, has died. He was 77. His family said in a statement that Wogan died Sunday surrounded by his loved ones "after a short but ...
Japanese stand-up comedienne Yuriko Kotani won this year's BBC Radio New Comedy Award for aspiring comics last Friday, beating five other finalists at the Comedy Store in London with a five-minute act blending humor and sarcasm. "I'm speechless. ... This is so wonderful!" Kotani, 34, ...
