James Careless News Today

Many of Canadas historic sites are reputed to be haunted by ghosts.

Ruxandra Obreja writes that BBC World Service in its long history never underestimated the great advantages of shortwave.

When I worked for VOA — actually the International Broadcasting Bureau, later called the Broadcasting Board of Governors and then the U.S. Agency for Global Media — I believe upper management thought people in Djibouti had high-speed internet and laptop computers. In reality they lived largely in small huts made from corrugated roofing iron. They were lucky to have a radio.