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Initial thoughts about the #BBC . It is not just another crisis. The closest parallel is Thatcher + Peacock committee in 1986, where Checkland and Birt had to secure the future of the corporation (amid much internal opposition to their culture and methods). This is worse 1/

I.. can't... stop... watching...

Facebook has blamed a "technical error" after it translated the name of China's President Xi Jinping as "Mr S***hole"

Companies like ExxonMobil, Shell, and Saudi Aramco are ramping up output of plastic — which is made from oil and gas, and their byproducts — to hedge against the possibility that a serious global response to climate change might reduce demand for fuels.

IMF chief economist @GitaGopinath  speaks exclusively to India Today. @rahulkanwal  #ITLivestream 

We’re in Richmond, Virginia, where thousands of gun-rights advocates have gathered to protest legislation that would restrict access to firearms in the state. Watch live on Facebook:

"In 1957, the same year that he attended Ghana's independence, Dr. King with Eleanor Roosevelt and Bishop James Pike, sponsored a document signed by 130 world leaders urging the international community to protest against apartheid" (Chinua Achebe) * Image: King in Ghana, 1957.

#UPDATE  Easing US-China trade tensions have lessened uncertainty and the world economy may have bottomed out but a sharp slowdown in India is creating a drag worldwide, the International Monetary Fund said Monday #IMF  #Davos 

"Well, that was some weird shit,'” former President George W. Bush said to former Sec. Hillary Clinton after President Trump's "American Carnage" inaugural address three years ago today.

Clumps of honeybees can teach us a lot about teamwork