European leaders have reached a landmark agreement to cut greenhouse emissions by 40 percent by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, BBC News reported on Friday. The European Union also agreed to widen th ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
A New York doctor who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in the West African country of Guinea has tested positive for the deadly virus, BBC News reported on Friday. Dr. Craig Spencer, who ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-24
With demonstrations in Hong Kong going on for almost a month, tensions between the police and students have escalated. BBC World News’ Babita Sharma joined the protesters when they first took to the s ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
Microsoft is ditching the Nokia brand name from new smartphones, less than a year after acquiring the Finnish mobile firm, BBC News reported. New Nokia Lumia devices will be known as Microsoft Lumia, ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-23
... onally on BBC World News. Over the coming weekends, he will host a new program "CEO Guru: China's Billionaires' Club", as part of a month-long season of programs focusing on China titled "Designed in ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... rasbourg, BBC News reported. The 59-year-old gynecologist set up the Panzi Hospital in eastern Congo in 1999 to treat women who have sustained serious injuries from sexual violence. In 2012 Mukwege su ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... tiations, BBC News reported. Pyongyang had asked the United States to transport Fowle out of the country as a condition for his release. Harf said Washington was working to secure the release of two o ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-22
... ar zones, BBC News reports. In its report Children in Danger: Act to End Violence against Children, Unicef UK said violence has become a global epidemic. "This epidemic has had a catastrophic impact o ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
Google has refined its search engine to direct users to legitimate sites as part of its efforts to curb online piracy, BBC News reported. It has added measures that will push down sites with illegal c ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-21
... ording to BBC The final report says only that anti-gay discrimination is "to be avoided". Two other paragraphs suggesting divorced and remarried Catholics could receive communion also failed to pass. ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-20
China has blocked the BBC website amid rising tensions between pro-democracy protesters and police in Hong Kong, Reuters reported, citing a statement from the British national broadcaster late on Wedn ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-16
... newsroom. BBC News saw a net reduction of 220 jobs in July after cutting about 200 between 2012 and 2013. The Wall Street Journal and USA Today also announced plans to eliminate positions. Bloomberg i ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-13
International donors have pledged US$5.4 billion for the Palestinians at a conference in Cairo, exceeding the US$4 billion sought by the Palestinian Authority, BBC News reported. Norwegian Foreign Min ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-13
... g for the BBC's Urdu service as an 11-year-old to campaign against the Taliban's efforts to deny women an education. Unable to return to Pakistan after her recovery, Yousafzai moved to Britain, settin ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-10
... quoted by BBC News. "Imagine how big an impact it could have if we could get everyone in East Anglia, or even the UK, to change their morning habits," he said. "The campaign has been really divisive - ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-10
... disease, BBC News reported. The nurse, Teresa Romero, is the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside West Africa. She had treated two Spanish missionaries who later died from Ebola. Romer ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-09
... o Turkey, BBC News reported. In his speech on a visit to a refugee camp for Syrians on Tuesday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said air power alone could not defeat the Islamist fighters. "We had warn ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-08
At least five activists have been detained in the mainland for supporting Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters, the BBC Chinese website reported Tuesday. One of them was Ding Ding, a Beijing-based art ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
... told the BBC in an interview. He said the Hong Kong students should perhaps withdraw from their campaign for now, adding that he doesn't know what the current Hong Kong leadership may do next should ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
... ve to the BBC in which parts of the transcript were redacted, according to The Telegraph. “People have a right to peaceful protest and by and large the protests have been peaceful but they are also u ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-07
