World Update

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| show_name = World Update

| image = World_Update_cover_art.jpg

| format = News, current events, and factual

| runtime = 54 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| home_station = BBC World Service

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| presenter = Dan Damon

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| editor = Ian Brimacombe

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| record_location = Broadcasting House

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| last_aired = 2020

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World Update was a radio programme that was BBC World Service's morning news strand. Broadcast at 10:06 GMT, it was also carried by public radio stations across the United States.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007dhp8 |title=World Service Programmes - World Update |publisher=BBC |access-date=2012-05-21}} Between 2003 and 2020, the programme was presented by Dan Damon.{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/institutional/2009/03/000000_dan_damon.shtml |title=BBC World Service - Institutional - Dan Damon |publisher=BBC |date=2011-10-11 |access-date=2012-05-21}} On 25 June 2012, World Update became the first English-language World Service programme to come from Broadcasting House.

In January 2020, the BBC announced that it would be discontinuing World Update.{{Cite web |date=January 29, 2020 |url=https://apnews.com/10792c77be5472fc8556b470950ce499 |title=BBC to cut an estimated 450 jobs in modernization plan |work=Associated Press |language=en |access-date=August 6, 2023 }}