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Apr 4, 2023 · Hill is moving across to present the 1pm, 6pm and 10pm news bulletins on BBC One, while Ley is moving into radio. Joanna Gosling, David Eades and Tim Willcox all took voluntary redundancy, it has ...
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- January. Image source, Other. Image caption, Giraffe, not tiger, bread. The year started with a three-year-old girl's victory over supermarket giant Sainsbury's.
- February. The death of singer Whitney Houston at a Los Angeles hotel shocked stars who had gathered there for a party ahead of the Grammy Awards. "It's difficult not to be sad about it because it's a great loss.
- March. Image source, SPL. Image caption, Could eating chocolate make you thin? Research suggesting chocolate 'may keep people slim' was widely considered as deserving of further investigation - and sharing.
- April. Plans to allow the government to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK emerged at the start of April. The proposals, which would require internet firms to give GCHQ access to communications in real time, were described by Tory MP David Davis as "an unnecessary extension of the ability of the state to snoop".
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- 2010: Chilean miners rescued. Image source, Getty Images. Miner Juan Illanes celebrates after coming out of the Phoenix capsule. Being trapped underground in darkness, with hardly any food or water, is "the stuff of nightmares", says BBC Latin America online editor Vanessa Buschschluter, who reported from the San Jose mine in northern Chile after 33 miners became trapped deep underground.
- 2011: Riots in England. Image source, Getty Images. A 150-year-old furniture store in Croydon is sent up in flames. It was the worst case of civil unrest in the UK for a generation.
- 2012: US re-elects Obama. Image source, Getty Images. Michelle and Barack Obama hug in one of the most re-tweeted posts in social media history.
- 2013: Boston bombings. Media caption, The moment of the first explosion. A jubilant scene at the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon turned into a horrific one when two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel exploded.
Dec 25, 2012 · This was the year in which this country saw more people in work than ever in history, 29.6 million adults. Yes, it is not what we expected, but UK employment is at record levels, external. The ...
- Costa Concordia Shipwreck. On Jan. 13, Captain Francesco Schettino steered the 60,000-ton Costa Concordia cruise ship off course and brought it close enough to the Tuscan island of Giglio to ground it on jagged coast.
- Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik Killed in Syria. On Feb. 2, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's relentless war against opposition rebels hit home in America in a new and powerful way, as government planes destroyed a building being used by journalists from around the globe, killing veteran American war reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik.
- U.S. Toll in Afghan War Hits 2,000. On June 14, CBS News senior security correspondent David Martin reported that, according to CBS News' tally, at least 2,000 American troops had died in Afghanistan.
- Mohammed Morsi Wins Egypt Election. On June 24, the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood's candidate of choice, Mohammed Morsi, was declared winner of Egypt's first democratic elections in more than a generation.
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