BBC director-general Tim Davie quits after 20 years amid row over misleading edit of Trump’s January 6 speech

BBC director-general Tim Davie quits after 20 years amid row over misleading edit of Trump’s January 6 speech

Tim Davie resigned as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) director-general on Sunday as pressure mounted over a Panorama programme accused of cutting together Donald Trump’s words in a way that misled viewers, triggering one of the broadcaster’s biggest rows in years.Deborah Turness, the BBC’s CEO of News, has also resigned as anger grew inside the newsroom….

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'Untenable injustice': US courts halt deportation of Indian-origin man; was wrongly jailed for 43 years

‘Untenable injustice’: US courts halt deportation of Indian-origin man; was wrongly jailed for 43 years

Two separate courts have ordered US immigration authorities to halt the deportation of Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam, a 64-year-old Indian-origin man from Pennsylvania who spent more than four decades in prison for a murder conviction that was later overturned.Vedam, is a legal permanent resident who has lived in the United States since he was nine months…

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'Two words' that wiped $29 billion from Mark Zuckerberg's wealth in just one day, taking him to his lowest ranking in two-plus years on Billionaires Index

‘Two words’ that wiped $29 billion from Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth in just one day, taking him to his lowest ranking in two-plus years on Billionaires Index

This week saw Facebook-parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg fall from third to fifth place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The plunge happened after Meta’ stock fell 11% on Thursday, October 30, wiping out $29.2 billion from Zuckerberg’s fortune in just one day. The drop was the fourth-largest one-day market-driven loss ever recorded by Bloomberg’s wealth…

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