British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) director-general Mark Thompson reported on Wednesday that the site had suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack recently.

MINNEAPOLIS, April 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Public Radio International (PRI) announces the appointment of Andrew Sussman as Executive Producer of "PRI's The World," a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH/Boston.

PRI taps NewsGator to syndicate content through freely available widgets DENVER, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Since listeners increasingly find their radio online, Public Radio International is making its gold-standard programming available across the Internet through "widgets." The dedicated Web-based portable apps serve up audio and headlines and can be replicated and shared indefinitely.

Iran has declared the recently established BBC Persian TV illegal and banned Iranian journalists and artists from working for the station, CNN reported. Considering the BBC's history of creating chaos in Iran, and its efforts to set the various strata of Iranian society against each other, the presence of the BBC Persian TV in the Islamic Republic is deemed to be illegal, Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi, the minister of culture and Islamic guidance, has announced, adding that plans for the BBC Persian TV channel were not carried out with good will. However, a spokesman for the English broadcaster insisted to CNN the BBC's latest operation -- which began airing programs in Farsi in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan last week -- isn't breaking any Iranian laws. The BBC representative said the company adheres to an Iranian law that says it is illegal for the channel to report and gather news in Iran.

Text of unattributed report headlined: "BBC Arabic section journalists demand improvement of human resources or reconsideration of extension of broadcasting hours", published by London-based newspaper Al-Hayat on 7 September The saga of the bumpy launch of BBC Arabic Television, which was delayed from autumn 2007 to spring 2008, does not seem to be over yet.