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Business Daily
Payday Loans: Friend or Foe?
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Payday loans are becoming more popular across the world but are they saviour or sinner? Plus we look at how attitudes to lending or usury have changed down the centuries. Show more
Witness History
Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl
9 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
In 1974 American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time. We hear how Beverly Johnson made it to the front of the world's most famous fashion magazine.
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How Dick Tracy and Wonder Woman have starring roles in the latest lie detecting technology. Show more
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Discovery
Crossrail: Tunnelling under London
27 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
The latest engineering techniques that Crossrail is using to bore 26 miles of tunnels below London's tube network, sewers and foundations. Show more
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News and issues making the headlines each day.
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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World Have Your Say
What is al-Qaeda in 2013?
29 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
We get the latest on the US embassy threats and hear from Calcutta on violence against women.
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Outlook
'Like Hell': Quebec oil-train inferno
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Canadian Raymond Lafontaine tells Matthew Bannister how he fought the fire which killed three members of his family after a runaway oil freight train exploded in Quebec. Show more
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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US asks citizens to leave Yemen; Watergate reporter on Washington Post sale; snake deaths
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The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
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How Dick Tracy and Wonder Woman have starring roles in the latest lie detecting technology. Show more
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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World Business Report
Amazon.com founder buys Washington Post
29 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Jeff Bezos - founder of Amazon.com has snapped up the Washington Post for $250 million. And as Disney releases its latest numbers we take a look at the company's recent flops. Show more
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World Have Your Say
What's going on in Yemen?
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
We speak to Westerners in Yemen and Yemenis to ask them what's going on in the country.
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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Following a spate of hateful and offensive tweets in the UK, how do you stop online abuse and bring perpetrators of criminal activity to justice? Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Libya and Yemen
11 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Militia leader Salem al Derby shows off his garden; leopards stalk the Yemen/Oman border Show more
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How Dick Tracy and Wonder Woman have starring roles in the latest lie detecting technology. Show more
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
World Business Report
Amazon.com founder buys Washington Post
29 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Jeff Bezos - founder of Amazon.com has snapped up the Washington Post for $250 million. And as Disney releases its latest numbers we take a look at the company's recent flops. Show more
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Newshour
Yemen criticises US over embassy closure
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Yemen angered over US embassy closure; Rouhani talks nuclear; website suicide blame
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Outlook
'Like Hell': Quebec oil-train inferno
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Canadian Raymond Lafontaine tells Matthew Bannister how he fought the fire which killed three members of his family after a runaway oil freight train exploded in Quebec. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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World Business Report
Amazon.com founder buys Washington Post
29 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Jeff Bezos - founder of Amazon.com has snapped up the Washington Post for $250 million. And as Disney releases its latest numbers we take a look at the company's recent flops. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
BBC Sport brings you all the latest stories and results from around the world.
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How Dick Tracy and Wonder Woman have starring roles in the latest lie detecting technology. Show more
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Business Matters
A Fortune on the Ocean Floor
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Vast mineral wealth on the ocean floor could transform the economy of the Cook Islands. Show more
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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Following a spate of hateful and offensive tweets in the UK, how do you stop online abuse and bring perpetrators of criminal activity to justice? Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
Israeli Settlements and Grenadian Chocolate
11 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Why some West Bank settlers still insist 'this is our land'. Plus, how one barefoot engineer reinvented the cacao industry on the island of Grenada Show more
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Outlook
'Like Hell': Quebec oil-train inferno
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Canadian Raymond Lafontaine tells Matthew Bannister how he fought the fire which killed three members of his family after a runaway oil freight train exploded in Quebec. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Live news, business and sport from around the world.
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
How Dick Tracy and Wonder Woman have starring roles in the latest lie detecting technology. Show more
