This BBC headline confused me for a few moments:
I didn’t think turkeys were flightless (wild, they’re not), so why the plane? Images of Chicken Run came to mind…
Bad bit of journalese there, I think. Not a great idea to associate plasticine poultry with a plane crash, however unintentionally.
Update: The BBC has updated the title to [...]
Courtesy of Popbitch, here’s a wonderful little Boris Yeltsin anecdote. He was being interviewed by a British journalist:
Journalist: “So, President Yeltsin, how would you describe the state of the Russian economy in one word?” Yeltsin: “Good”. Journalist: “Okay then Mr President, perhaps you would describe it in [...]
Alan Johnston, the BBC’s correspondent in Gaza, was abducted on his way home on March 12th. He remains missing, almost six weeks on.
Alan Johnston has lived and worked in Gaza for three years, the only Western reporter permanently based in the often violent and lawless territory.
He has reported on all sides of the Palestinian struggle, [...]