Drafting BBC News World November 18, 2022 image source, Getty Images Caption, Jorge Drexler was the big winner of the night at the 2022 Latin Grammys. The Uruguayan Jorge Drexler was crowned this Thursday as the great winner of the Latin Grammy Awards by obtaining seven statuettes. Drexler, who in April of this year published … Read more
Gerardo Lissardy BBC News World 12 minutes image source, Getty Images Caption, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, the 2016 Pritzker laureate, was chosen to conceive a large museum in Doha. With his native Chile on the sidelines, award-winning architect Alejandro Aravena says he has little interest in the great global soccer party going on these days. … Read more
Laura Plitt BBC News World 1 hour image source, Getty Images Caption, Bust of the creator of the prize, Alfred Nobel. They call it the Nobel disease, the Nobel effect, the Nobel syndrome and even nobelitis. And although there are those who say that winning this prestigious award is not a condition sine qua non … Read more
James Gallagher Health and Science Correspondent, BBC News 56 minutes image source, Getty Images Caption, Leprosy can damage nerves and cause disability. Leprosy bacteria may hold the secret to safely repairing and regenerating the body, say researchers at the University of Edinburgh. Animal experiments have revealed the bacteria’s remarkable ability to nearly double the size … Read more
In 2020, after years of whispers and protests regarding the alleged unethical behavior of Martin Bashirthe BBC instructed the former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the Honorable Lord Dyson, to conduct an official investigation. He wrote the Dyson report: This exhaustive 127-page investigative document describes how the journalist manipulated family spencer … Read more
Awa Cheikh Faye and Valorien Noubissi BBC Africa 36 minutes ago Amadou Hampathé Ba, Sembène Ousmane or Norbert Zongo are some of the names of African authors who come up the most when we ask Africans in the French-speaking world about their favorite works. “I read a long letter from Mariama Bâ and also currently, … Read more
Drafting BBC News World 28 minutes image source, AFP He has been on a hunger strike for 6 months and, since Sunday, he no longer drinks water. British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has spent most of the last decade in prison in Egypt, has intensified his hunger strike to coincide with the start of … Read more
Angel Bermudez (@angelbermudez) BBC News World 6 October 2022 image source, Courtesy Gravitas Ventures Caption, Ángela Álvarez during her presentation at the Ávalon Theater in Los Angeles. When I remind her that she is nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards for best new artist, Ángela Álvarez lets out a very sincere “wow”. It’s as if … Read more
Drafting BBC News World 5 October 2022, 10:05 GMT Updated 7 hours image source, Royal Swedish Academy of Science Researchers Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharples are the winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of click and bioorthogonal chemistry. “The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about making difficult … Read more
By Sam Cabral BBC News, Washington August 12, 2022 Photo credit, Getty Images Author Salman Rushdie, who suffered years of Islamist death threats after writing The Satanic Verses, was attacked onstage in New York state. This article is likely to be updated The Booker Prize winner, 75, was speaking at an event at the Chautauqua … Read more