Explosion at the Iran embassy in Beirut

The news is about an explosion at the Iranian embassy in Beirut. More than 20 people are killed. All three websites have used different pictures of dead or hurt people and burning cars in the streets.

BBC’s headline is “Fatal blasts hit Iran Beirut embassy”. They have written that at least 22 people are reported killed, while the two others wrote that at least 23 people were killed.

CNN’s headline is “Beirut: Blast at Iranian embassy”.  

Aljazeera’s headline is “Explosions target Iran embassy in Beirut”

 

It was quite easy to find the same news story on all three websites because it was the “breaking news” on all of them. The article on BBC was quite long, and CNN had a video. None of them have that much information about it yet because it just happened.

 

Mari Gjevre and Malene Garli

Yasser Arafat Murdered?

One of the biggest news this week on international webpages is about the speculations around the death of Yasser Arafat.

“ In the wake of an independent Swiss report that found Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had "unexpected high activity" of polonium in his remains, his widow says there's no doubt that he was murdered with the radioactive element.

"The findings confirm what we always [believed] and what the Swiss lab always [believed]," Suha Arafat told ABC News in a phone interview. "It's a very sad day; it's a political crime."

The Swiss report released Wednesday followed findings last year that showed abnormal levels of polonium in several of Arafat's personal effects. Last November, his body was exhumed from its mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah and tissue samples were taken. They were distributed to separate Swiss, Russian and French teams.

"When you ask [the Swiss scientists] the question directly, they will tell you, 'Of course it's a murder,'" Suha Arafat said. "There's no other explanation.”

You can find the news in both Abc-news and Aljazeera English, and they are the main headlines in the internet pages. They were therefore very easy to find, because they have the biggest headlines of all the news at the page, and are very visible.

The two channels focus on different sides of the case. The Abc-news focuses mostly on his wife, and that she believes that it was a murder. You can see that it is an article that focuses more on the gossip around the event, and the feeling of the wife. The Al Jazeera focuses on the facts behind, and what they have found that can indicate that it was a murder. This article is much longer than the other, because they give us a persistent presentation of the background, and what happened the night he died. The language is also much more professional, scientific and formal. The vocabulary is in addition more difficult, and includes academic words. Both the newspapers portray the case as very important, and as one of the biggest news on the channel this day.

Made by Ingrid, Maria and Helene 

Bus hijacking in Norway: Three killed

All three websites are about the same news, but they are written in different ways and one of the websites has more focus on the case.

BBC and TheGuardian have used the same picture, while Aljazeera have used another one.


The headlines are also different:
BBC: “Three killed” in Norway bus hijack
TheGuardian: Norway bus hijacking: Three killed
Aljazeera: Several dead in Norway bus hijacking.

 At BBC´s they have written about the when it happened, while on the other websites they only tells us about the place. BBC and Aljazeera have also written about how the witness reacted at the situation.

Aljazeera and TheGuardian goes back to the bus hijack in 2003, when an Ethiopian man stabbed to death a bus driver at the same bus route.

Aljazeera have written more about the perpetrator, that he was an asylum seeker, and that he should be sent out.

TheGuardian tells us about where he comes from (South- Sudan) the other websites says nothing about this. TheGuardian also goes back til the episode we had in Oslo and Utøya in 2011, where several people died

Written by Caroline Risgaard Godø and Golsa Hosseini

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Blasts at China regional Communist Party office

We checked out BBC and CCN and found this news article on the top news on both sites. On Tuesday at 07.40 am local time a series of explosions in front of Communist Party offices in a northern China appeared to have been caused by home-made bombs. The authorities are investigating, but they assume that it was a terrorist attack. Both pages inform we about how many who was killed and how many that were wounded, when and where it happened. BBC has found out more facts about the case, then any other page. They seemed to have figured out more specific details then CNN, and have a longer article also. The case is so fresh, so they don’t have all the specific details on what happened and why.

Written by Kari Marie Trøen Hagen og Janne Nøbben