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The UK Film Council will be axed as part of the British government's plans to cut costs, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.

Hunt announced plans to close the Council which has an annual budget of £15 million and employs 75 people.

National Public Radio senior news analyst Daniel Schorr, whose career touched every aspect of journalism, has died at the age of 93.

Schorr, who was once put on President Nixon's “enemies list” for his coverage of the Watergate scandal, passed away Friday morning at a Washington hospital, National Public Radio (NPR) reported.

Chinese meteorologists have announced that a powerful typhoon is moving towards the southern province of Guangdong, raising fear among the residents.

Typhoon Chanthu will arrive to the region between Dianbai and Xuwen on Thursday noon, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

Although the Russian spies, who were deported from the US for acting as unregistered agents of a foreign country, forfeited their rights to sell their story in the United States before being released from detention, there could be high demand in other countries. Anna Chapman, the photogenic red head who has become the face of the spy scandal, is likely to be the focus of a media chase. Alan Fisher reports.

CNN has fired its senior editor for Middle Eastern affairs after she published a Twitter message praising the late Lebanese Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah.

Octavia Nasr has been told to leave the US television news network after praising the Lebanese cleric who died from internal bleeding in a Beirut hospital on Sunday.

Watch the full 57th episode on Tuesday in which Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the latest scandals of American newspapers that rebrand torture as 'waterboarding;' Timmy Geithner's unwitting junk bond buyers; and, bailed out American banks financing Mexican drug lords. In the second half of the show, Max talks to lawyer, Luc Saucier, about building a case of obscenity against the banks.

At least 59 journalists have been killed because of their job in the first six months of the year 2010, the Switzerland-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) says.

The non-governmental organization issued a statement on Sunday, announcing that this year's journalist death toll stood at 59 up from 53 for the same period in 2009.

Cinemas in Japan have started screening a controversial film about a village where dolphin-hunting is an annual tradition. There have been many angry protests against the movie in the past months and now only a few cinemas are willing to show it. Al Jazeera's Florence Looi reports on how many Japanese accuse the film of being "anti-Japanese".

America's venerable talk show host Larry King has announced a decision to step down after 25 years of hosting the popular "Larry King Live" show on CNN news channel.

"Before I start the show tonight, I want to share some personal news with you…. I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told them I would like to end Larry King Live, the nightly show, this fall," King said at the beginning of his show on Tuesday.