On Monday, the Associated Press reports, North Korea expelled three BBC journalists for allegedly insulting the country’s dignity, shortly before the authoritarian state’s first congress in 36 years bestowed a new title upon Kim Jong Un: “Party chairman.”

A BBC reporter delivered the giggling, high-as-fuck newscast of the year when he accidentally smoked the pile of burning heroin, opium, and hashish he was supposed to be reporting on.

A woman who was trapped in last year's garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed 1,134 people and injured more than 2,400, now tells the story of having to amputate her own arm to escape the rubble.

On Friday, the BBC radio station 1Xtra, which bills itself as "the UK's leading black music station," released its list of the "Top 20 Most Important UK Artists In The Scene." At the top was Ed Sheeran, an acoustic guitar-toting folk-rocker who looks like Ron Weasley.

BBC is instructing its editors and producers to stop striving for "false balance" by booking so many anti-science and climate-denying commentators. "Audiences should be able to understand from the context and clarity of the BBC's output what weight to give to critical voices," a company report stated.

Australians come together on this particular episode of BBC Radio 1's Innuendo Bingo, where guests are asked to take in water while they listen to earnest but salacious-sounding soundbites. The result? Everyone ends up covered in water, as the laughter is too hard to keep in.

For many people, curling is the most confusing Olympic sport. Luckily, here's Sir David Attenborough, the famous British maker of nature documentaries, to explain with some voiceover commentary. Sort of.

New York Times Company CEO Mark Thompson, who is in the midst of re-imagining the newspaper he runs for the digital era, has apologized for the "failure of an expensive digital project" that cost his prior employer, the BBC, $160 million. At least he didn't lie to Parliament about it!

Though the Duchess of Cambridge has officially gone into labor, no big news is expected before tomorrow morning, leaving the throng of reporters stationed outside the St Mary's Lindo Wing to report on absolutely nothing but baseless speculation for the rest of the day.

Looks like the royal baby will have zero time to recover from its swim through the English Channel of amniotic fluid before doing battle with its first foe: a giant Loch Ness monster version of Colin Firth that has just been plunked down in Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park, London.

BBC Radio Stoke host Paula White, who has filled the station's afternoon slot with "guests, chat and outlook on life" for the past six years, was unceremoniously pulled off the air during her final program over concerns she was drunk on the job.

Not satisfied with their first try, the film industry has decided to give it another go at a Liz Taylor biopic.

From a BBC One documentary series on wildlife in Africa comes the most incredible nature footage ever captured on film: A squirrel responding with anthropomorphic shock to the sight of a hungry leopard.

Warning: There are spoilers below for a show that won't officially air in the U.S. until next year.

On April 18th, 1930, the BBC famously informed listeners: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news."

Do you ever feel like, no matter what you do, some chicken, somewhere, is tryna copy?

The recipient of the world's first silicone breast implants is and was a total bad-ass. Here are some facts about her from the BBC News Magazine's A Brief History of Breast Enlargements:

Saturday in Britain was a "lovely winter's day," according to this wonderful BBC weather. And what says "lovely winter's day" better than "bucketloads of cunt"?

Next week, the BBC will debut a series about animal life in the Arctic and Antarctic called Frozen Planet. In this preview clip, male members of an Adelie penguin colony in Antarctica gather stones to build nests while competing for lady penguins in the process. But as you'll see, not all of them do it honestly.

In your weary Thursday media column: a fun cokey journalism blind item, Steve Jobs makes the media work, plagiarism at the Examiner, micromedia evolution, and layoffs are coming to the BBC.