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The United States Social Security Administration announces it will lay off over 7,000 jobs to align with President Donald Trump's executive order, despite its workforce already being at a 50-year low.
2025-02-28

According to the "Daily Express" tabloid, a BBC correspondent says that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “finally agreed” to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
2022-03-20

Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announces that the United Kingdom's state broadcaster BBC will be reformed, with the television licence fee being abolished in 2027. Funding of the BBC will also be frozen for the next two years.
2022-01-16

The BBC reverses its controversial decision to ban the songs "Rule, Britannia!" and "Land of Hope and Glory" from the 2020 Last Night of the Proms over concerns over their links to colonialism and slavery. Critics of the songs, including Chi-chi Nwanoku and Gareth Malone, say the songs are "outdated" and glorify racism.
2020-09-2

Amnesty International says "widespread torture" is taking place inside detention centres in Belarus, with more than 6,700 people detained since protests against Lukashenko broke out following the disputed presidential election result. Amnesty International says detainees described being stripped naked, beaten and threatened with rape. The BBC also reports evidence of torture, including at the Okrestina detention centre in Minsk.
2020-08-14

The President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Juan Guaidó tells the BBC he is considering formally requesting the United States to launch a military intervention to topple President Nicolás Maduro. Guaidó led a failed uprising against Maduro last month.
2019-05-5

The Trump White House bars "The New York Times", CNN, the "Los Angeles Times", the "New York Daily News", "The Hill", the "Daily Mail", BBC, Politico, and BuzzFeed from a Friday press "gaggle." Generally conservative, mostly new, outlets were permitted entry, such as Breitbart News, One America News Network, and "The Washington Times". Also allowed in were ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, "The Wall Street Journal", Bloomberg News, and Fox News. "Time" magazine and the Associated Press could have attended but chose not to in protest. The White House Correspondents’ Association, which represents the press corps, quickly rebuked the White House’s actions. [http:--bigstory.ap.org-article-9d04bb7ccf60468987c582b4ee9c7e24-white-house-bars-major-news-outlets-media-gaggle (AP)] [https:--www.reuters.com-article-us-usa-trump-media-idUSKBN1632JG?il=0 (Reuters)] [http:--www.nbcnews.com-politics-white-house-white-house-excludes-several-outlets-press-gaggle-n725366 (NBC News)] [https:--www.nytimes.com-2017-02-24-us-politics-white-house-sean-spicer-briefing.html?_r=0 ("The New York Times")] [http:--www.msn.com-en-us-news-politics-media-slams-limited-wh-press-access-ar-AAnksZB?ocid=edgsp ("The Hill" via MSN.Com)] date=August 2019
2017-02-24

British counter-terrorism police arrest a man who was a childhood friend of the terrorist Michael Adebolajo after he gives an interview to the BBC in which he claims that the MI5 had contacted him in the past.
2013-05-25

Anne Robinson leaves "The Weakest Link", prompting the BBC to end the quiz show.
2011-04-22

Comedian Steve Coogan criticises the presenters of BBC television series "Top Gear" in relation to their recent insulting of Mexicans. He also criticies the BBC's "pitiful" and "mealy-mouthed" apology after it offended Mexicans.
2011-02-5