â A precious metal is an expensive metal (such as gold) that is used especially for jewelry. â see also semiprecious. diamonds and other precious stones. precious jewels/jewelry. [+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples.
Al Jazeera English newsroom, Doha, 2008. News is information about current events. Journalists provide news through many different media, based on word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, and also on their own testimony, as witnesses of relevant events.
News is a reliable British export. The lineup of products has included the tabloid and broadsheet newspaper, which came to define modern journalism; the BBC, the first global news brand; and the Guardian's website, giving the world, for better or worse, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. And now, Mail Online.