So there I was in my hotel room after the match in Tbilisi, killing the hour before heading to the airport by idly channel-hopping in search of BBC World or CNN.

TV chef Rachel Allen’s recipe for success has a Far Eastern flavour right now as her main firm returns to profitability.

ONE of the mixed blessings travelling beyond our archipelago is that it’s hard to avoid American TV news. BBC World is frequently not available. Even when it is, their ‘cycle’ – the time it takes before they start repeating stories – is getting wearyingly short. Maybe it’s cutbacks.

There was fresh trouble in Belfast tonight as police pledged to get tough with loyalist demonstrators who have caused major disruption for days.

BBC broadcaster Michael Buerk has complained that the “shift in the balance of power between the sexes” has gone too far, saying “life is now lived in accordance with women’s rules”.

TRANSMISSIONS of the BBC World channel’s week-long series of China-themed programmes to hotels and apartment compounds for foreigners have been repeatedly blocked during reports on politics and other sensitive issues.

The BBC says an interview with where an alleged spokesman for US chemical giant Dow accepted responsibility for the Bhopal disaster in India was a deception.

WBO featherweight champion Scott Harrison claimed yesterday that his name is already part of Scottish boxing history.

Frankie Dettori led virtually all the way to land the UAE 1000 Guineas at Nad Al Sheba yesterday in the familiar blue Godolphin colours.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will boycott the BBC when he visits London next week.

Israeli premier Ariel Sharon will boycott the BBC when he visits London next week, it was reported today.

Iraq’s UN ambassador during the dying days of Saddam Hussein’s regime now says that his government deserved to be overthrown and that he would accept a trial for the former dictator.

Israeli cable television operators abruptly dropped the BBC World news channel from their roster of stations today after the two sides failed to reach a financial agreement.