Sources: BBC
American telecommunications company Verizon announces it will lay off over 13,000 employees, nearly 20% of its management workforce, in a restructuring. 2025-11-20
German automotive parts company Continental AG announces it will lay off over 3,000 research and development positions and end operations at its factory in Nuremberg, Bavaria, by 2026. 2025-02-18
American aerospace company Boeing announces it will layoff 17,000 workers by the end of 2024, 10% of its global workforce, due to financial difficulties following the machinists strike. 2024-11-19
The Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority suspends the press license for Reuters's Ethiopia correspondent, and issues warnings to those representing the BBC and Deutsche Welle, for their alleged biased coverage of the Tigray conflict. 2020-11-20
The BBC reveals that a secret deal in mid-October allowed hundreds of ISIL fighters and their families, including some of their "most notorious members", escape from Raqqa in a convoy that was between 6 to 7 km long. The United States government confirms that the deal with ISIL was made and that the evacuations took place. The possibility of a deal was previously reported as early as October 14. 2017-11-13
The BBC reports that Nigeria will be removed from the list of countries where polio is endemic. 2015-09-25
BBC says that an edition of "Panorama" filmed secretly on a university study trip to North Korea will be broadcast, despite claims by the London School of Economics that students may have been put in danger. 2013-04-15
The BBC condemns the treatment given to one of its reporters, who has been deliberately assaulted by police while doing his work in Cairo. He was beaten up with steel bars, "the ones used here for slaughtering animals". 2011-01-29
Viewers of UK soap opera "EastEnders" complain in record numbers about a "hurtful", "unrealistic" and "exploitative" cot death storyline as the BBC sets out to meet the grieving mothers it has upset. 2011-01-9
The BBC's "Spotlight" programme reveals that Iris Robinson, former UK MP and wife of the First Minister of Northern Ireland, helped a 19-year-old male who she was having a relationship with receive funding for a business project. 2010-01-7