THE HOST: And Im joined on the line from Plymouth in the southwest of England by Lan Grant whos the chief medical officer for the British Antarctic Survey. Hes responsible for training the doctors who go out to the Antarctic each year. So Lan, what a...
Leaders of the United States, Britain and France have made a joint appearance to condemn Iran, and threatened further sanctions just hours after it finally admitted having a second nuclear facility. They were speaking at the G20 summit in the US city...
The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has welcomed the decision by Iran to admit international inspectors to its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant. The Iranians insist the plant will be used only to generate electricity. From Washingt...
THE HOST: 'Neither a borrower or a lender be' says a father to his son in William Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet. But actually borrowing and lending is all part of family life and of the interaction between friends. How many of us have never borro...
Many people have been killed in Guinea during an opposition protest in the capital Conakry. A doctor said at least 58 bodies have been brought to hospital, many with bullet wounds. This report from our West Africa correspondent Caspar Leighton. Apart...
The End of Privacy THE HOST: Well, Pierce Faulks is in the BBC's New York studio and he's the publisher of the trend website PSFK. So Pierce, why should we be focussing on privacy? PIERCE FAULKS: Well, for the majority of us we are a little naive abo...
A powerful underwater earthquake has struck in the South Pacific between Samoa and American Samoa. A tsunami is reported to have hit a village and there is said to have been deaths, though details are still coming in. Phil Mercer reports from Sydney....
The United Nations says at least 1,100 people were killed in the huge earthquake that struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday. A large number of people are still believed to be trapped under rubble and the UN humanitarian chief John Holm...
The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro has been chosen to host the 2016 Olympic Games. Rio beat the Spanish capital Madrid in a final round of voting by the International Olympic Committee meeting in Copenhagen. From there, Alex Capstick reports. Rio's...
CLAUDIA HAMMOND: If you happen to find yourself 80 meters under the sea, off the coast of Florida in the USA, then you might come across Aquarius, the world's only underwater research habitat. And it's here deep down under the water that NASA is givi...
