BBC NEWS | Business | The man who invented the cash machine
"They're clever scoundrels," fumes John Shepherd-Barron at his remote farmhouse in northern Scotland. He is referring to the seals which are raiding his salmon farm and stealing fish. "I invented a device to scare them off by playing the sound of killer whales, but it's ended up only attracting them more." But failure with this device is in contrast to the success of his first and greatest inventi
BBC 中文网 | 中国报道 | 威视公司涉嫌行贿在纳米比亚遭调查
据英国和非洲媒体报道，胡锦涛长子胡海峰曾亲自执掌的清华同方集团威视公司在南部非洲的纳米比亚被卷入诈骗和行贿调查。 据英国《每日电讯报》报道，威视技术股份有限公司因与纳米比亚政府签署的一份价值3400万英镑（约3.8亿元人民币）的合同而受到当地反贪委员会的调查。 隶属清华同方集团的威视公司与纳米比亚政府签署的合同涉及这家民营高科技公司向纳米比亚海关提供用于机场以及港口等的透视扫描仪器。 南非《邮卫报》报道透露，中国政府向纳米比亚提供了一笔刚好与威视公司扫描仪合同等值的软贷款，条件就是必须将扫描仪合同提供给威视公司。 报道说，根据威视公司与纳米比亚政府签署的合同，纳米比亚将贷款的约40%作为定金支付给威视公司，以便该公司马上开始制造有关仪器。 不过报道说，纳米比亚财政部通过例常对银行的检察发现财政部交付给威视公司的巨款几乎马上又转入了一个由三人合开的帐户。 反腐败 调查发现，这个帐户的三个所有
BBC NEWS | UK | Wikipedia child image censored
Page last updated at 11:08 GMT, Monday, 8 December 2008 A decision by a number of UK internet providers to block a Wikipedia page showing an image of a naked girl has angered users of the popular site. The blocked page of the online encyclopaedia shows an album cover of German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1976. Internet providers acted after online watchdog the Internet Watch Foundation
BBC NEWS | Americas | Bin Laden niece in glamour shots
The niece of Osama Bin Laden has posed for provocative photographs for an American magazine. Wafah Dufour, an aspiring musician and model, is the daughter of the al-Qaeda leader's half-brother Yeslam. She appears stripped to ostrich feather lingerie, and in a bubble bath, in photos for American GQ magazine. US-born, she says she is an American, and distances herself from her uncle. "Everyone relat
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