Latest World & National News & Headlines (2024)

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The job of the headline is to indicate the benefit and to make a promise to the visitor that it's worth it. And to do it in less than a second. The more specific the benefit, the more likely the visitor is to click. Great headlines make specific promises. Ask yourself as if you're the reader.

The News International phone hacking scandal was a controversy involving the now-defunct News of the World and other British newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch. Employees of the newspaper engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories.

Although there are many news agencies around the world, three global news agencies, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP), and Reuters have offices in most countries of the world, cover all areas of information, and provide the majority of international news printed by the world's newspapers.

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Today is the most important day of your life. The importance of today may involve something you do for someone else. Even "bad days" should be lived to their fullest. You can set up tomorrow based on what you do today.

A headline is the title of a newspaper story, printed in large letters at the top of the story, especially on the front page. The Daily Mail has the headline 'The Voice of Conscience'. Synonyms: heading, title, caption, headline banner More Synonyms of headline.

Introducing past time events

The present perfect simple is often used in newspaper headlines or TV news programmes to report a recent past event. It is then followed by a series of verbs in the past simple (underlined): Charlton Heston has died aged 84, a spokesman for his family has said.