Globe-trotting British broadcaster Whicker dead at 87

LONDON, July 13: Veteran British broadcaster and journalist Alan Whicker, whose career spanned five decades and whose clipped delivery style was parodied by Monty Python, died yesterday at the age of 87. Whicker was best known for the award-winning “Whicker’s World” globe-trotting documentary series which ran on the publicly funded BBC and ITV networks between 1959 and 1988. (agencies)