* 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.

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.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Due to needing two accesses to each chip instead of one, and the complications of the video hardware also needing access, reading or writing RAM was much slower than on the BBC Micro.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

By providing extra storage this modification also allowed some games and applications intended for the BBC Micro to function on the Electron despite the lack of a native Mode 7.

See also the list of Acorn Electron games for a fairly comprehensive list of games published for the machine and: Category: BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games for a list of games with information on Wikipedia.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

BBC Text also enabled channel association, the ability for the user to retain their selected television channel visible in one section of the screen whilst viewing the text service, in contrast to Ceefax, which could only be viewed as a full-screen display, or as a semitransparent overlay ( i. e. opaque blocks of colour on top of the television channel, with the black background now transparent ; not ' translucent blocks of colour with a translucent black background ') above the television picture.

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

Weather summaries are provided every half hour by forecasters from the BBC Weather Centre while business and sport updates are also presented generally from within the main studio.

In the early 2000s, BBC Two also started simulcasting the channel, although the weekend morning show Weekend 24 had been simulcast on the channel in the early days.

Coverage of major events has also been simulcast on BBC World News.

Many of these programmes also appear throughout the week on BBC News's sister channel BBC World News.

It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.

On 21 April 2008, BBC News 24 was renamed BBC News on the channel itself – but is referred to as the BBC News Channel on other BBC services.

This technique is also referred to as color keying, colour-separation overlay ( CSO ; primarily by the BBC ), or by various terms for specific color-related variants such as green screen, and blue screen-chroma keying can be done with backgrounds of any color that are uniform and distinct, but green and blue backgrounds are more commonly used because they differ most distinctly in hue from most human skin colors.

Branson made several appearances during the nineties on the BBC Saturday morning show Live & Kicking, where he was referred to as ' the pickle man ' by comedy act Trev and Simon ( in reference to Branston Pickle ).

The group rose to fame by starring in their own BBC television series, Miami 7, in 1999 and have been widely referred to as inspiring a new generation of teenage TV musicals including High School Musical and Glee.

Under Bělohlávek the orchestra won glowing reviews: The Times referred to its " superb musicians ", Michael Kennedy in The Sunday Telegraph referred to a " rich and opulent magnificently played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra " under Bělohlávek, and another Telegraph critic praised the BBC SO's " virtuoso form ".

In Britain, ITN's news presenters ( especially those on ITV News ) are referred to as newscasters ( and have been since the 1950s ), whilst those working at the BBC are called newsreaders.

During the same debate, Smith referred to a recent Government defeat in the Newbury by-election, a poor showing in the local elections, and a subsequent Cabinet reshuffle by saying that, " If we were to offer that tale of events to the BBC Light Entertainment Department as a script for a programme, I think that the producers of Yes Minister would have turned it down as hopelessly over the top.

Today ( sometimes referred to as " the Today programme " to avoid ambiguity ) is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6. 00 am to 9. 00 am Monday to Friday, and 7. 00 am to 9. 00 am on Saturdays.

The limited set of rolling pages shown on Pages from Ceefax ( referred to as a " newsreel ") was also accessible at any time of day via Ceefax page 152 ( BBC Two only ) on any analogue teletext television.

In 1973, he joined BBC Radio 2, where he presented a regular programme ( which he referred to as ' The JY Prog '), until his retirement from broadcasting at the end of 2002.

Take It From Here ( often referred to as TIFH, pronounced — and sometimes humorously spelt — " TIFE ") was a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960.

However some areas not styled as a " county " have mistakenly been referred to as such by the media, including by BBC Wales.

On Saturday 20 October 1962 the award of Nobel prizes to John Kendrew and Max Perutz, and to Crick, Watson, and Wilkins was satirised in a short sketch in the BBC TV programme That Was The Week That Was with the Nobel Prizes being referred to as ' The Alfred Nobel Peace Pools.

The BBC B Disk version, referred to as Classic Elite, would load a new set of ships after every hyperspace jump or space station launch, meaning a larger number of ships were available.

The News Quiz also features considerable comedic input from regular BBC newsreaders ( or " Hacks-neutral ", as Alan Coren famously referred to them ).

In more recent times, Boudica has been the subject of numerous documentaries, including some by Discovery Channel, History International Channel ( now known as H2 ), and the BBC.

The BBC News Channel moved from the Studio N8 set ( now home to BBC World News ) to what was the home of the national news in Studio N6, allowing the Channel to share its set with the BBC News at One and the BBC News at Ten – with other bulletins moving to studio TC7.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

With domestic news, the correspondent first records a " generic minute " summary ( for use by all stations and channels ) and then priority is to report on BBC Radio 5 Live, then on the BBC News Channel and any other programmes that are on air.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

During the Summer, the hour long programme News 24 Sunday was broadcast both on BBC One and the BBC News Channel at 09: 00, to replace The Andrew Marr Show, which is off air.