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...
Political leaders across the European Union have welcomed the strong Irish referendum vote in favour of the Lisbon Treaty which is designed to strengthen the 27-nation bloc. The President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said it was a g...
Iran has agreed to let inspectors from the United Nations nuclear agency visit its recently-revealed second uranium enrichment plant. They will go there on Oct 25th. The day was set during a visit to Tehran by the head of the agency Mohammed ElBarade...
Pakistans Interior Minister Rehman Malik has blamed a lapse in security for a deadly explosion detonated by a suicide bomber at a United Nations compound in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. Mr. Malik said the bomber had been dressed as a member of th...
