In this file picture taken on October 9, 2007 British publicist Max Clifford arrives to the 'Pride of Britain' awards at the London Studios in central London. British police have arrested top publicist Max Clifford on suspicion of sexual offences, it was widely reported on December 6, 2012. Police confirmed they had arrested a man in his 60s under Operation Yewtree, an investigation into sex offences sparked by allegations that late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile was a serial paedophile. They would not name the suspect in line with police policy, but various news outlets named him as Clifford, one of Britain's leading PR gurus.
AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief Assaad Abboud prepares to conduct a live interview with France 24 television from the Iraqi capital 06 December 2006. The satellite channel was broadcasting for the first time and is the first French-based global network set up to compete with CNN, BBC World and Al-Jazeera. France entered the increasingly crowded international television news market today with the launch of the round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a French perspective on world events.
AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief Assaad Abboud prepares to conduct a live interview with France 24 television from the Iraqi capital 06 December 2006. The satellite channel was broadcasting for the first time and is the first French-based global network set up to compete with CNN, BBC World and Al-Jazeera. France entered the increasingly crowded international television news market today with the launch of the round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a French perspective on world events.
AFP Baghdad bureau chief Dave Clark conducts a live interview with France 24 television from the Iraqi capital 06 December 2006. The satellite channel was broadcasting for the first time and is the first French-based global network set up to compete with CNN, BBC World and Al-Jazeera. France entered the increasingly crowded international television news market today with the launch of the round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a French perspective on world events.
AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief Assaad Abboud conducts a live interview with France 24 television from the Iraqi capital 06 December 2006. The satellite channel was broadcasting for the first time and is the first French-based global network set up to compete with CNN, BBC World and Al-Jazeera. France entered the increasingly crowded international television news market today with the launch of the round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a French perspective on world events.
AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief Assaad Abboud conducts a live interview with France 24 television from the Iraqi capital 06 December 2006. The satellite channel was broadcasting for the first time and is the first French-based global network set up to compete with CNN, BBC World and Al-Jazeera. France entered the increasingly crowded international television news market today with the launch of the round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a French perspective on world events.
AFP Baghdad deputy bureau chief Assaad Abboud conducts a live interview with France 24 television from the Iraqi capital 06 December 2006. The satellite channel was broadcasting for the first time and is the first French-based global network set up to compete with CNN, BBC World and Al-Jazeera. France entered the increasingly crowded international television news market today with the launch of the round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a French perspective on world events.
AFP Baghdad French journalist Thibauld Malterre conducts a live interview with France 24 television from the Iraqi capital 06 December 2006. The satellite channel was broadcasting for the first time and is the first French-based global network set up to compete with CNN, BBC World and Al-Jazeera. France entered the increasingly crowded international television news market today with the launch of the round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a French perspective on world events.
AFP Baghdad bureau chief Dave Clark conducts a live interview with France 24 television from the Iraqi capital 06 December 2006. The satellite channel was broadcasting for the first time and is the first French-based global network set up to compete with CNN, BBC World and Al-Jazeera. France entered the increasingly crowded international television news market today with the launch of the round-the-clock network in French and English with a brief to broadcast a French perspective on world events.
BBC employees arrive for work at the organisation's New Broadcasting House in central London, on November 12, 2012. The BBC's director of news, Helen Boaden, and her deputy, Stephen Mitchell, have stepped aside amid the crisis over late television star Jimmy Savile and a report wrongly accusing a politician of child abuse, the BBC said Monday. The announcement follows the resignation on Saturday of BBC director-general George Entwistle over another Newsnight report last week that wrongly implicated a senior political figure in abuse at a Welsh children's home in the 1970s.
BBC employees arrive for work at the organisation's New Broadcasting House in central London, on November 12, 2012. The BBC's director of news, Helen Boaden, and her deputy, Stephen Mitchell, have stepped aside amid the crisis over late television star Jimmy Savile and a report wrongly accusing a politician of child abuse, the BBC said Monday. The announcement follows the resignation on Saturday of BBC director-general George Entwistle over another Newsnight report last week that wrongly implicated a senior political figure in abuse at a Welsh children's home in the 1970s.
The BBC's offices at New Broadcasting House are pictured in central London, on November 12, 2012. The BBC's director of news, Helen Boaden, and her deputy, Stephen Mitchell, have stepped aside amid the crisis over late television star Jimmy Savile and a report wrongly accusing a politician of child abuse, the BBC said Monday. The announcement follows the resignation on Saturday of BBC director-general George Entwistle over another Newsnight report last week that wrongly implicated a senior political figure in abuse at a Welsh children's home in the 1970s.
BBC employees arrive for work at the organisation's New Broadcasting House in central London, on November 12, 2012. The BBC's director of news, Helen Boaden, and her deputy, Stephen Mitchell, have stepped aside amid the crisis over late television star Jimmy Savile and a report wrongly accusing a politician of child abuse, the BBC said Monday. The announcement follows the resignation on Saturday of BBC director-general George Entwistle over another Newsnight report last week that wrongly implicated a senior political figure in abuse at a Welsh children's home in the 1970s.
Photo taken on October 23, 2012 shows BBC director general George Entwistle making a statement to the media after giving evidence to Commons Culture Committee on BBC response to Jimmy Savile affair in London . Entwistle resigned on November 10, 2012 after the broadcaster's flagship news programme wrongly implicated a British politician in child sex abuse.
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 23: A television news crew's monitor, placed on the ground outside Parliament, shows BBC Director General George Entwistle appearing in front of a select committee on October 23, 2012 in London, England. A BBC1 'Panorama' documentary broadcast last night contained new allegations about the handling by BBC2 programme 'Newsnight' over claims of sexual abuse allegedly carried out by fomer BBC television presenter, Jimmy Savile, the transmission of which was subsequently dropped. Police have confirmed that Sir Jimmy Savile, the BBC presenter and DJ who died in October 2011 aged 84, may have sexually abused young girls on BBC premises.
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 22: A Channel Four television news crew wait outside BBC Broadcasting House on October 22, 2012 in London, England. A BBC1 'Panorama' documentary to be broadcast later tonight contains new allegations about the handling by BBC2 programme 'Newsnight' concerning claims of sexual abuse allegedly carried out by fomer BBC television presenter, Jimmy Savile, the transmission of which was subsequently dropped. Police have confirmed that Sir Jimmy Savile, the BBC presenter and DJ who died in October 2011 aged 84, may have sexually abused young girls on BBC premises.
Patrick Baz of Agence France-Presse (AFP) speaks after receiving the prize for the work of AFP photographer Aris Messinis, 'the Sirte battle' which took the Trophee Photo Nikon prize at the annual Bayeux-Calvados award ceremony on October 13, 2011 in Bayeux, western France. Correspondents for Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Agence France-Presse, BBC News and CNN were awarded this year's Prix Bayeux-Calvados des Correspondants de Guerre prize. The prizes were created in 1994 in honour of the 50th anniversary of the Allied landing. The town of Bayeux, located in Normandy near the beaches where the World War II D-Day invasion took place, created the awards.
LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 12: BBC World Service radio former headquarters - Bush House on July 12, 2012 in London, England. Today the last ever news bulletin was read from Bush House - home to World Service radio for 70 years. The station is now based in a new building at Broadcasting House one mile away.
