BBC News correspondent Lyse Doucet has been awarded the prestigious David Bloom Award for this gripping report on maternal mortality in Afghanistan, Where Giving Life is a Death Sentence. The announcement was made Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at the 66th Annual Radio Television Correspondents' Association Dinner at the Washington Convention Center attended by Vice President Joe Biden.
In the report, which aired on BBC World News America on October 27, 2009, the BBC's Lyse Doucet, traveled to Badakshan province, in northeast Afghanistan, to report from the part of the world with the worst-ever recorded rate of maternal mortality. Since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, some international aid has reached this remote area to build clinics and train midwives, but the statistics for maternal mortality remain grim.
Lyse Doucet is an anchor and correspondent for both BBC World Service radio and BBC World News, the BBC's global news channel. She is often deployed to anchor special news coverage from the field and frequently interviews world leaders. Some of her recent assignments have included covering the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma in May 2008 and reporting the South Asia earthquake in 2005 as well as extensive coverage of the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami. Lyse was born in eastern Canada, in Bathurst, New Brunswick.
BBC World News America airs weeknights at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT on BBC AMERICA and BBC World News.
Mischievous Daily Mail columnist Flic Everett (nice name) suggests Kate Winslet's marital problems have elicited schadenfreude from fellow women. "When Jennifer Aniston's latest love affair imploded, millions of women across the globe felt her pain....Yet news this week that fellow A-lister Kate Winslet has split from husband Sam Mendes has had a very different effect. Among the nine perfectly nice women I happened to be working with yesterday, the general consensus was: 'Ha, serves her right.'"
Winslet's career is "undimmed" after the failure of her marriage, says The Daily Telegraph's David Gritten. Isn't a bit sexist to suggest that the two have anything to do with each other?
This is what happens when you're famous: people take pictures of you sh**faced and wearing a beanie on your head. Like Robert Pattinson. (The Sun)
Headline: Hugh Grant's white shirt was soiled in a stunning chocolate cake fight at a a nightclub. I'm just relieved those brown stains are from chocolate cake. (Daily Mail)
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Twilight star Robert Pattinsonthrows his name into the ring as a potential future James Bond. I'm interested in seeing what sort of actor Pattinson becomes: Daniel Craig has really transformed the role of 007 into a very modern action hero. With a personal trainer and a few years of hard living, could Pattinson season himself up for the part? Or will he be typecast as the milky milquetoast from the Twilight movies?
I guarantee that, unlike Pattinson according to his own words, Bond is NOT allergic to vaginas!
posted by merryoaks, Thursday, March 18, 2010
Unless Pattinson can learn how to act, not the preening we've seen from him so far, and perhaps get a face that doesn't so closely resemble a cromagnon man; he might have a slim chance of ever being James Bond.
In Planet Earth, we brought you the world like you've never seen it before. Now get closer with Life. With versions narrated by Oprah and David Attenborough.
Mischievous 
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