BBC World News Press Releases

BBC World News and BBC Arabic television are to launch as part of Gulf Air's 'Sky Hub' in-flight entertainment service. 'Sky Hub' uses Panasonic Avionics Corporations Global Communications Suite to offer passengers a comprehensive communications and entertainment solution which includes full broadband connectivity to access internet, mobile phone services and, for the first time in the world across global routes, live television service on-board.

On Friday 14 October, the BBC World News Horizons series continues with an episode looking at the development of health technologies and personalised medicine in the UK. This second episode in the series looks at how the increasing ageing global population is putting additional stress on healthcare, and the race to develop a new generation of personalised medicine.  

On Friday 7 October, BBC World News launches the second series of Horizons, a collection of ten programmes exploring the business world of the future.

BBC Newsnight & BBC World News America have triumphed at the 32nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy ® Awards with a unique insight into North Korea by BBC correspondent Sue Lloyd-Roberts. The Emmys were presented by the National Academy of Television arts and sciences in New York last night, Monday 26 September 2011.

On Monday 26 September voting will open for World Challenge 2011, an annual competition run by BBC World News and Newsweek in association with Shell, which highlights and rewards small enterprising and innovative businesses bringing economic, social and environmental benefits to local communities around the world.

Sir Hugh Orde, President of the Association of Chief Police Officers in the United Kingdom, who this week narrowly missed out on the job to become the next Metropolitan police commissioner, has spoken to HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur.

The BBC announced today that Katty Kay is to be the lead anchor of the corporation's flagship U.S. newscast BBC World News America .

BBC World Japan Ltd has announced that Colin Lawrence has been appointed, Representative Director of BBC World Japan Ltd. Colin will take-on this role alongside his current position as Commercial Director for BBC World News Ltd, the BBCs global news network.

The World Challenge, an annual competition run by BBC World News and Newsweek in association with Shell, has announced its 12 finalists for 2011. The competition highlights and rewards small enterprising and innovative businesses around the world and this year’s competition includes finalists from Cambodia, Chile, Egypt, India, Japan, Kenya, Mongolia, Nepal, Paraguay, UK, Uganda, and USA.

As the new Premier League season kicks off in England, BBC World News is launching a new show for football fans around the world – the interactive Sports forum Sports World Have Your Say broadcasting on Sunday 14 August at 18 : 00 GMT.

BBC World News will broadcast a new weekly magazine programme, The Health Show starting on 23 July 2011 . The 26 part series will cover a range of important global health issues.

BBC World News America has scored four nominations in the 32nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy® Awards.

EMS* Europe Summer 2011 has confirmed the BBC's television, online and mobile services now reach an unprecedented 16.3 million affluent Europeans each month.. 

The French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé has spoken to HARDtalk ' s Stephen Sackur in Paris about a range of topics including the future of the EU and the euro, Libya and Syria. 

The wave of uprisings across the Arab World have dominated the talking points of the BBC's flag ship interactive show World Have your Say and BBC Arabic's Nuqtat Hewar  (Talking Point) over the past few months. 

A special edition of  The World Debate – Asia : Sharing the Wealth? - hosted by Mishal Husain , recorded at the World Economic Forum in Jakarta, will broadcast on the BBC's International news services on 18 and 19 June.

Asia's economy, its business, politics, society and environment are among the subjects that will come under the microscope in Power of Asia , a month-long season of content across the BBC's international news services, on TV, radio and online, beginning 10 June 2011.

On 29 April 2011, viewers across the world can watch BBC World News television, tune into BBC World Service radio and go to BBC.com for coverage of the biggest royal wedding of the century- the marriage of HRH Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton. It's an event that is expected to attract a global audience of over a billion people* and, in addition to coverage on the day, the BBC's international news services has a line-up of special content and programming in the build-up to the event.

Hardtalk on the road is in Australia, for a series of special programmes presented by Stephen Sackur. The three part series will broadcast on BBC World News from Monday 11 April and is the fourth HARDtalk on the road series, which has previously visited Greenland, Sri Lanka and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

BBC World News is to travel the globe exploring the business world of the future in Horizons, a new series beginning on 6 May.

Nominations have now opened for the seventh annual World Challenge competition, which rewards projects and small businesses around the world showing enterprise and innovation.

BBC World News and BBC.com are to showcase a multi-platform series exploring the business world of the future, after signing a major new sponsorship deal with DuPont.

From tomorrow, the BBC's Extreme World series focuses on the issues around women's equality with a special series of programming - on radio, television and online – on a day that marks the 100 year anniversary of International Women's Day.

A new BBC World News evening update bulletin, World Have your Say Extra, launches on Friday 4 March to accommodate the large volumes of calls and social media traffic generated by the interactive news discussion show World Have your Say.

Tackling the big issues and stories that people around the world want to discuss, World Have Your Say – the BBC's award-winning global interactive news discussion show on radio – is launching a new weekly TV edition of the show which will broadcast every Friday on BBC World News television from Friday 4 February, from 3.00pm (GMT).

This February, the BBC’s Extreme World focuses on the topic of dying, in a range of special reports from India, the USA, China, the UK and Sierra Leone.

The BBC’s Global News services – BBC World News (television), BBC World Service and BBC.com – announce Mishal Husain as the anchor for the BBC’s international coverage of the wedding of His Royal Highness Prince William and Miss Kate Middleton in April.