NBC tonight launches a new series-The Office. It's the American version of a British comedy series. The original has a small but dedicated group of fans in the United States. Remaking British series for American audiences is not new, but as NPR's Kim...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 13 July 2007 Two British teenagers have been provisionally charged with drug possession and drug trafficking in Ghana. Experts say Europeans, as well as pregnant women and minors, are increasingly being used by traffickers to...
By Sonja Pace London 09 July 2007 A British court has handed guilty verdicts for four men in plotting to bomb London's transport system in July 2005. Jury deliberations continue for two others implicated in the plot. VOA's Sonja Pace reports from Lon...
Welcome back. It was a futuristic vision of efficiency or in our value in nightmare depending on your point of view. The government had been planning two huge computer databases, one to store all of our personal identity information, / the other our...
The increase in the obesity could lead to as many as 1500 more cancers a year in Britain by the year 2010. Cancer Research UK which carried out the survey claims that too few people are aware of the link between excess weight and the risk of developi...
Who's the odd one out of these four: Is it the footballer Wayne Rooney, The cricketer Andrew Flintoff, The Olympic Gold medal heptathlete Denise Lewis? Or the Conservative MP and legendary launching Nicholas Soames. It is, of course, Nicholas Soames,...
(Healthy food)are proving so unpopular in some parts of the country. There is a warning that some catering services are in danger of collapse. 60 percent of English secondary schools who responded to a BBC survey reported a fall in the number of pupi...
If he kept his son in the village, he would have buried him, so says Madonna, defending her decision to adopt a baby from Malawi. The pop star ended her silence today with the soft sofa option, an interview on the Oprah Winfrey show. Speaking in a li...
Downing Street will receive a special delivery from postmasters this afternoon, the country's biggest ever petition in modern times. Four million people have backed a campaign, urging the government to save Britain's post offices. More than four thou...
Last Tuesday, The Ten O'Clock News looked at serious allegations made in the BBC's Panorama program about the Football Premiership . Three football agents claimed the Bolton manager Sam Allardyce has taken illegal payments, he's firmly denied the cla...
