Live news, business and sport from around the world.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Live news, business and sport from around the world.
Live news, business and sport from around the world.
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
From battling shoppers in Venezuela to gamblers in Macau, the highlights of some of this year's most exotic and unusual Business Daily trips. Show more
Witness History
Prison Camp in WW2 Manila, Philippines
9 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Thousands of civilians were interned in Manila when Japanese troops invaded the Philippines in World War II. Show more
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Did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to? Show more
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Science In Action
Best of 2013: The Natural World
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Coffee and bananas in peril; Electric bees and wild pollinators; Primate communication and gelada calls Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
India's Hunger
11 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
An extended essay from Mark Tully considers why malnutrition persists in India. Could the root causes really be inequality and inefficiency, rather than a lack of food? Show more
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News and issues making the headlines each day.
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The world is our Newsroom, join us as we find out what is happening right now around the world.
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
The Fifth Floor
The Best of the Fifth Floor
50 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Looking back at 2013: a year's reporting from the World Service's 27 language sections. Show more
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
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Newshour
Beirut bomb kills former minister
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Car bomb kills Lebanese ex-Finance Minister; Ugandan warning to South Sudan; Climate change refugees.
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The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.
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World Football
The Colourful Life of Football's Rudi Gutendorf
29 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Having coached 18 national teams, hear Rudi Gutendorf's tales from an astonishing career. And from match-fixing to protests in Brazil, we look back at the big stories of 2013.
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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
Has Greenpeace won an arctic victory?
29 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Thirty activists have been released in Russia but what about their original cause? And how Western companies have started bringing jobs back home from China. Show more
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World Have Your Say
What's behind the Lebanon attack?
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
A group of Sunni and Shi'a Muslims discuss Syria and Lebanon following the killing of Mohammed Chatah and a journalist speaks to us a research ship in Antarctica.
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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
Has Greenpeace won an arctic victory?
29 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Thirty activists have been released in Russia but what about their original cause? And how Western companies have started bringing jobs back home from China. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to? Show more
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
The Why Factor
Nitrogen: Forgetting Fritz
18 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Why has one of the world’s most important scientists been forgotten? He worked with nitrogen, making discoveries that helped feed billions, but arguably, kill millions. Show more
From Our Own Correspondent
India's Hunger
11 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
An extended essay from Mark Tully considers why malnutrition persists in India. Could the root causes really be inequality and inefficiency, rather than a lack of food? Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
Newshour
Machar's cautious response to ceasefire
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
South Sudan ceasefire talks; Lebanon explosion; stuck in the Antarctic
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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World Business Report
Has Greenpeace won an arctic victory?
29 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Thirty activists have been released in Russia but what about their original cause? And how Western companies have started bringing jobs back home from China. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
The Fifth Floor
The Best of the Fifth Floor
50 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Looking back at 2013: a year's reporting from the World Service's 27 language sections. 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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In the Balance looks at the road to recovery. Taking stock of how the world's richest people - and some of the world's poorest - have been affected by the crisis in capitalism. Show more
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Business Matters
Will Arctic drilling be put on ice?
55 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Greenpeace protestors are released but will Arctic drilling be put on ice? Show more
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The Fifth Floor
The Best of the Fifth Floor
50 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Looking back at 2013: a year's reporting from the World Service's 27 language sections. Show more
The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
Cathy FitzGerald explores how Prabhjot Singh, a Sikh doctor in New York, was attacked by racists – and forgave them. Show more
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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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Discovery
The Return to Mawson's Antarctica - Part Two
27 minutes
on BBC World Service OnlineAvailable for over a year
Join the Australasian Antarctic Expedition studying ice and the water underneath it. Could changes in the water beneath the ice have consequences for the world's oceans? Show more
