A BBC World Service survey covering 11,000 people in 23 countries found unemployment was the world’s fastest-rising worry.

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Job loss ‘is fastest-rising fear’

The BBC World Service Trust will receive a £90m government grant from the Department for International Development.

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World Service receives cash boost

The BBC’s World Service is too valuable to the corporation’s reputation for its funding to be cut, a government watchdog says.

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World Service ‘should not be cut’

The BBC Chinese Service makes its final radio broadcast in Mandarin after nearly 70 years – a casualty of the BBC World Service spending cuts.

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BBC Chinese shows in Mandarin end

The BBC Caribbean Service broadcasts for the final time, one of several World Service language services closed because of budget cuts.

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BBC closes its Caribbean Service

Facing a 16 percent reduction in its budget, the BBC World Service said that it would close five of its 32 language services and reduce its workforce by about a quarter.

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BBC to Trim World Service

Critics warn of the major impact of World Service cuts

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‘Silenced’ by cuts

The BBC World Service is to cut 650 jobs – a quarter of its staff – after losing millions of pounds in funding from the Foreign Office.

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World Service to lose a quarter of its staff

The BBC is due to outline its plans to close five of its World Service language services.

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BBC to detail World Service cuts

BBC World Service is to close five of its language services, with the likely loss of up to 650 jobs, it is understood.

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Major cuts to BBC World Service

Margaret Tyler has been collecting royal memorabilia for the past 30 years. In the run up to the royal wedding, she gave the BBC World Service a tour of her house which contains one of the largest collections of Royal memorabilia in the UK.

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A life collecting royal memorabilia

No decisions have been taken about possible funding cuts to the BBC World Service, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt says.

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‘No decisions’ over World Service