BBC NEWS | Programmes | Breakfast | Reporters | Graham Satchell
...Regular Breakfast reporter Graham Satchell counts himself as a Geordie. His first TV job was with Britain's smallest station, on Jersey...
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | 1948: The State of Israel is founded
...The State of Israel was proclaimed on 14 May 1948, the culmination of nearly 2,000 years of hopes by Jewish people that they would one day return to the land from which the Romans expelled them. The Holocaust of European Jewry in the Second World War strengthened their determination. The Balfour ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7381315.stm
BBC NEWS | Business | Lesotho fines second dam firm
...Lesotho's High Court has fined a German company more than $1m for bribing its way into a massive dams project. The company, Lahmeyer International, says it will appeal against both the conviction and the 10.45m maloti ($1.46m; £930,000) fine. Lahmeyer is the second firm to be convicted in ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3185145.stm
BBC News - The top 100 sites on the internet
...Explore this interactive graphic to find out which are the biggest sites on the internet, as measured by the Nielsen company. This feature is part of SuperPower, a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8562801.stm
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China 'fake milk' scandal deepens
...A baby milk scandal which has killed at least 13 infants in China appears to be widening. State television says infants who were fed fake formula have been treated for malnutrition in a second province. An investigation is under way, and police in Anhui province have already detained five ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3648583.stm
Robot sub aims for deepest ocean - BBC News
...A robotic submarine is undergoing final preparations to dive to the deepest-known part of the oceans. If successful, Nereus will be the first autonomous vehicle to visit the 11,000m (36,089ft) Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean. Only two other vehicles have ever visited the spot before, both of ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8035499.stm
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Turin shroud 'older than thought'
...The Shroud of Turin is much older than suggested by radiocarbon dating carried out in the 1980s, according to a new study in a peer-reviewed journal. A research paper published in Thermochimica Acta suggests the shroud is between 1,300 and 3,000 years old. The author dismisses 1988 carbon-14 dating ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4210369.stm
Somerset | Care manager acquitted of abuse - BBC News
...A night manager at a care home for young people in Somerset has been found not guilty of abusing one of the teenage girls in his care. Andrew Caulfield, 43, from Minehead, had denied eight charges of sexual contact with the fifteen-year-old. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8119582.stm
BBC NEWS | Europe | Guernsey | Witness describes fighting flames
...A man who fought back the flames of a fire in a St Peter Port flat in which two people were injured has described his experience. Dwayne Ingrouille was one of the first people on the scene of the blaze in Lower Vauvert. He said the flames were about 7ft (2.1m) tall and he was worried that a man hanging from the roof would fall. The fire was one of five during the early hours of Sunday which ......
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/guernsey/7681716.stm
South West Wales | Mystery of missing nun reviewed - BBC News
...Her disappearance was one of the most talked about cases of its time but police searches proved fruitless. Sister Jacinta's handbag was found on the foreshore the day after her disappearance by a local boatman, about 30ft from the West Pier....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5034628.stm