Source: BBC
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Thursday 23 November 2023 18:03:32
Ellie Goulding Among Radio 4's Today Programme Guest Editors
Pop star, Ellie Goulding is one of seven high-profile public figure people to guest edit BBC Radio 4's Today programme over the Christmas period.
Other guests who will edit the show during the week between Christmas and New Year include former Top Gear host James May and author Hanif Kureishi.
The tradition of guest editors has been running for the past 20 years.
It has seen the likes of Prince Harry, Angelina Jolie and Stephen Hawking edit the show.
The BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme will begin the guest editor takeover on 23 December with Nasa's Head of Science, Dr Nicky Fox, who will look at science education and the influence of outer space on music.
Boxing Day will see author and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi as guest editor.
Mr Kureishi sustained life changing injuries after a fall in Rome, and now one year on he will explore the impact his injuries have had on his family and how they have changed the way he now writes.
On 27 December, Grand Tour and former Top Gear presenter James May will look at the future for autonomous cars and whether hobbies can improve your health and wellbeing.
May told the Today Podcast on Wednesday, after news that Top Gear was being paused, it was "time for a new format and a new approach to the subject because the subject has not been this interesting, I suspect, since the car has been invented".
Goulding will take over the show on 28 December and use her programme to look at climate and nature stories, as well as examining the work being done to make the music industry more sustainable.
Other guest editors include Andrew Malkinson, who has been cleared this year after being wrongfully convicted and jailed for 17 years and Jason Arday, Cambridge University's youngest black professor.
He will look at the stigma and shame associated with low literacy in adults after he was diagnosed with global development delay and only learnt how to read and write at the age of 18.
The guest editing series will close with Dame Emma Walmsley, CEO of the global biopharma company GSK.
Each programme will include an interview with the guest editor.
