* Angola profile from the BBC News

* Secrets of Sun-like star probed, BBC News, June 1, 2007.

* BBC News report on the ( delayed ) successful launch of the Ariane 5 ECA flight on November 16, 2005.

* Belgium profile from the BBC News

The story of the men's claims was covered by many major news networks, including BBC, CNN, ABC News, and Fox News.

BBC News ( also referred to as the BBC News Channel ) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding and resources from the BBC and improvements in digital television technology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with two minute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Online and the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sport bulletins.

In May 2007, the channel became available for UK viewers to view through the BBC News website through a live stream.

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as " BBC World News " while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

In production of the countdown sequence, Clive Norman filmed images around the United Kingdom, Richard Jopson in the United States, while BBC News cameramen filmed images from Iraq, Beijing ( Great Wall of China ), Bund of Shanghai, Africa, as well as areas affected by the 2004 Asian Tsunami and others.

On 17 July 2003, Kelly, an employee of the Ministry of Defence, apparently committed suicide after being misquoted by BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan as saying that Tony Blair's Labour government had knowingly " sexed up " the " September Dossier ", a report into Iraq and weapons of mass destruction.

* Polls find Europeans oppose Iraq war ( BBC News )

This " impassioned " speech " against war on Iraq, or immediate war on Iraq ", won " an unprecedented applause ", reported the BBC's Sir David Frost ( BBC News ).

On 9 March 2003 Short repeatedly called Tony Blair " reckless " in a BBC radio interview and threatened to resign from the Cabinet in the event of the British government going to war with Iraq without a clear mandate from the United Nations.

* UN condemns Iraq on human rights, BBC April 2002

* Mass grave found in northern Iraq, BBC News, 10 September 2004

* BBC: Iraq marshes ' recovery ' in doubt '

On 13 October 2005 Straw took questions from a public panel of ( mostly anti-war ) individuals in a BBC Newsnight television special on the subject of Iraq, addressing widespread public concerns about the exit strategy for British troops, the Iraqi insurgency and, inevitably, the moral legitimacy of the war.

The BBC uncovered a letter written after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 where Tehran made this offer The proposition was done in a secret letter to Washington via Switzerland.

* Sir Richard Dearlove announces his retirement from MI6 amid speculation about differences of opinion over the war in Iraq ( BBC ).

Kelly had been the source for reports made by three BBC journalists that the Government, particularly the press office of Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, had knowingly embellished the dossier with misleading exaggerations of Iraq's military capabilities ; specifically, a claim that Iraq had the ability to launch a strike using " weapons of mass destruction " within 45 minutes.

In the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War he was the subject of an episode of the BBC series 10 Days to War, in which he was played by Tom Conti.

He worked at BBC Radio 3 the following year, where he soon completed a musical tour of the so-called Axis of Evil: North Korea, Iran and Iraq.

Kelly's discussion with BBC Today programme journalist Andrew Gilligan about the British government's dossier on weapon of mass destruction ( WMD ) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal.

* Minister admits Iraq is ' a mess ', BBC, 11 March 2006 ( audio )

* In a BBC interview, Dr. Hans Blix accuses the U. S. and British governments of dramatising the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order to strengthen the case for the 2003 invasion.

Andrew Paul Gilligan ( born 22 November 1968 ) is a British journalist best known for a 2003 report on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme in which he said a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction ( the September Dossier ) had been ' sexed up '.

In the 2003 BBC documentary on the Iraq conflict, Fighting the War, BBC cameras were allowed into the facility to film a small part of a teleconference between ministers and military commanders.

* Written answer on Iraq advice — from BBC News

* Iraq war ' violated rule of law BBC NEWS

* BBC: US acts after Iraq prisoner abuse, ( 30 April 2004 )

* Doubt cast on Iraq torture photos ( May 2, 2004 ) ( BBC )

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

A BBC documentary using figures compiled in Switzerland estimated that fatality rates in 1816 were twice that of average years, giving an approximate European fatality total of 200, 000 deaths.

* " Deaths during Fire Strike " BBC News article covering the deaths during the strike.

Russell Davies, British film critic and later a BBC radio host, compared the film to the work of Thornton Wilder and Dylan Thomas: " The pattern is cyclic ... A year in the life of a coastal village, with due emphasis on the seasons, and the births, marriages and deaths.

In 1996, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a 90-minute radio play called United States about the lives and deaths of Chang and Eng Bunker.

Part of the road was named " the most dangerous road in South East England " in 2008, and the BBC named the road as the ' most crash prone A road ' in the UK with 7, 721 crashes and 120 deaths over 12 years from 1999 – 2010, an average of 383 crashes per mile.

The BBC commissioned Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, to write a poem to mark the deaths of Allingham and Harry Patch, who died one week after Allingham on 25 July 2009.

In an October 30, 2006 BBC article Lancet study author Les Roberts compares the number of violent deaths found in the UNDP survey and in the 2 Lancet surveys through the first year after the invasion ( by April 2004 ):

* BBC News-Safety plea over maternity deaths

* India's dowry deaths, BBC

* Arrests follow Ethiopian deaths, BBC, 8 June 2005

* Media spotlight on Baghdad deaths, September 13, 2004, BBC News

Professor Michael Patton, a clinical geneticist at St George's Hospital Medical School told the BBC that a genetic inheritance was the most likely explanation for the crib deaths in the family.

* On July 15, 2005 the BBC reported over 25 deaths over a two day period when raiders from Uganda ambushed and stole cattle ( BBC ).