A French film that pays tribute to the silent movie era leads in nominations for the Golden Globes, a high-profile Hollywood award that recognizes the year’s best achievements in film and television. The Artist, a silent movie shot in black and white, received six nominations. They are Best Comedy or Musical, Best Actor for a [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 14, 2011
Could US-style local TV work in the UK?
13 December 2011 Last updated at 13:56 GMT By Brian Wheeler BBC News, Birmingham, Alabama Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Local television news is a big hit in most parts of the United States Local television stations are on their way to the UK, with the culture secretary announcing details of [...]
December 14, 2011
Moscow Protests Get Legs with Social Media
A Moscow march to protest election fraud unexpectedly drew tens of thousands of people on Saturday. With 40 percent of Russian adults online, many say social media, including the Russian social networking site VKontakte, has made it possible for a long stalled opposition movement in Russia to organize a rally that size. Last Saturday Danila [...]
December 14, 2011
How useful is a captured stealth drone?
14 December 2011 Last updated at 00:26 GMT Iran distributed photos showing the drone An American surveillance drone has been captured and filmed in Iran, where experts are apparently examining it. But how much valuable information are they likely to glean? Pictures broadcast by Iranian television of the stealth RQ-170 Sentinel will have made grim [...]
December 14, 2011
Trillion frames per second camera
13 December 2011 Last updated at 17:54 GMT A movie still of a piece of fruit taken by the camera – the shot lasted one trillionth of a second A camera capable of visualising the movement of light has been unveiled by a team of scientists in the US. The equipment captures images at a [...]
December 11, 2011
December 11, 2011
Palestinians Slam Remarks by US Presidential Candidate
Palestinians have expressed outrage at Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, who described them as an “invented people.” During an interview with the Jewish Channel, a cable television channel in the United States, Gingrich departed from official American policy which supports the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel. “There was no Palestine as a state,” [...]
December 9, 2011
Hospital Fire Kills Scores in Eastern India
The death toll from a fire that engulfed a private hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata has risen to 89. Authorities say the blaze swept through the AMRI Hospital early Friday in the capital of West Bengal state. Local television channels showed patients being rolled out on stretchers and distraught relatives waiting outside [...]
December 9, 2011
December 9, 2011
December 5, 2011
Russian Ruling Party Weakened as Voters Choose New Parliament
Russia’s Prime Minister is hoping for a renewed mandate from Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Instead, Vladimir Putin’s political party appears to have lost ground. Exit polls indicate that Mr. Putin’s United Russia party is hoping to keep its majority in parliament, with nearly one quarter of its seats going to the opposition. After state-run television aired [...]
December 4, 2011
Iran military shoots down U.S. drone: state TV
December 4, 2011 by legitgov ShareThis Iran military shoots down U.S. drone: state TV 04 Dec 2011 Iran’s military has shot down a U.S. reconnaissance drone aircraft in eastern Iran and has threatened to respond to the violation of Iranian airspace, a military source told state television Sunday. “Iran’s military has downed an intruding RQ-170 [...]
December 2, 2011
US not invited as Hugo Chávez launches Latin group
Heads of state from across Latin America and the Caribbean flew in to Caracas on Friday for the inaugural meeting of a group designed to counter US influence and improve regional ties. But the US and Canada, have been sidelined from what the host, Venezuela‘s president Hugo Chávez, has called “the most important political event [...]
November 29, 2011
Herman Cain denies affair claim
29 November 2011 Last updated at 00:08 GMT Ginger White says Herman Cain paid for her travel to meet him around the US Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has denied claims by a Georgia woman that she had a long extramarital relationship with him. Even before Ginger White’s allegations were aired, Mr Cain went on [...]