The BBC News Magazine had an article on this exact subject, and pointed out that:

When it comes to US police officers firing their weapons, the rules - on paper - are very clear.

"Ultimately you come to your firearm as a last resort," says Jim Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police.

"You would only use that weapon in a situation where you felt your life or the lives of civilians in the area were in danger."

[...]

While there is no national standard, the state rules and regulations regarding officers' use of deadly force is mostly consistent throughout the country.

Gas leak. Before reading the BBC News article I thought it might have been natural gas leaking into the drains, but they suggested it was a propylene gas pipeline from a nearby petrochemical complex.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28619502

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Well... it is. In 2001 a grocer was convicted for using scales which only showed imperial weights, but that doesn't mean that the people have wholeheartedly adopted the system (see this article from BBC News Magazine for example).

I visited in 2002, and found that it was metric enough to make it comfortable for an Australian We were visiting a friend who is a vet nurse... who would weigh animals at work in kilograms, but herself in stones. If you've watched Gav and Dan in the slowmo guys videos, they measure distances in centimetres, inches, metres, kilometres, and miles.

Might I also point out that the U.S. is also officially a metric country, and has been for 148 years, after an act of congress was passed authorising the use of metric weights and measures in 1866 (ref http://science.howstuffworks.com/why-us-not-on-metric-system2.htm), and having been the only English speaking country to become a signatory to the Metre Convention (in 1875).

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I was just reading an article on the BBC News website about the books that inspired George RR Martin, by the late French author Maurice Druon - http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26824993

Another point of view, BBC News explains the situation in 90 seconds:

There was a BBC News Magazine article about Saroo earlier this year, with a longer version of the story - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17693816

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There's an article on this on the BBC news site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23897047

Well as I hear it, that's a problem that almost everybody occasionally faces with Chinese.

There was an article on the BBC news site about another group doing similar work:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130315-a-better-way-to-learn-chinese/1

There was a similar idea in an article on the BBC news web site recently:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130315-a-better-way-to-learn-chinese/1

I found the article on migrants and their eating patterns, it wasn't on the BBC News site, it was New York Times, and I saw it syndicated here:

http://www.theage.com.au/world/us-habits-leave-migrants-with-a-lot-on-their-plate-20130519-2junz.html

In the spirit of Godwin, I propose a new internet law that describes the inevitability of the MSNBC false equivalency whenever a comment or topic criticizes FOX news.

I love ya, choggie, and VS is way better and more interesting with you here, but this dog just don't hunt.

I think the days of intrepid journalism are largely over for most of the news sources you mentioned, but there still are pockets of resistance to the inanity that passes as news in America. Regardless of whichever political ideolgy you most identify with, you cannot dismiss MSNBC as opposite but equal to FOX. MSNBC is most definitely liberal/progressive, but they wear it on their sleeve, and their spin is backed by facts and reality. FOX spins everything, and completely misinforms it's viewers fans by simply making shit up, not to mention the ubiquitous fear-mongering, the subliminal programming of their crawl, the always-angry, paranoid, petty, spiteful, and shrill talking heads, and the daily memo'd bullet points that are regurgitated verbatim and hammered into the brains of their veiwers all day long from show to show. The dolts on FOX and Friends have got to be the three DUMBEST people ever to thousand-yard stare into a camera. FOX is "news entertainment" at best.

There are infinite shades of gray between black and white, and MSNBC is definitely biased, but you can't say it isn't factual (the vast majority of time). If there was a true "equal but opposite" version of MSNBC, I would watch it. Unfortunately, FOX serves only as a source of amusement for me. "No Spin Zone" makes me giggle every time Papa Bear says it. It's brilliant parody.

That said, we agree that Americans are largely low information because low information is exactly what we get from the news sources readily available. But the "truth" is out there if one cares enough to go look for it.

For starters...
Al Jazeera
CBC News
BBC News
Christian Science Monitor
Reuters

Just in: "Foreign Secretary William Hague says UK government will not allow Julian Assange safe passage out of the UK" - BBC News.