Philippa Thomas is the presenter of World News Today, a daily newscast featuring the latest US and international headlines, in-depth interviews and reports from BBC correspondents on the biggest stories from around the globe.

An experienced foreign correspondent, Philippa has covered numerous breaking news and set-piece international events.

She reported from flooded disaster zones in Honduras and Venezuela, analysed politics in Cuba, witnessed football World Cup tensions in Argentina and reported on the celebration of ten years of multi-racial democracy in South Africa and the repression of dissent in Mugabe's Zimbabwe.

In London, Belfast and Dublin, Philippa covered the Northern Ireland peace process from paramilitary bombs to power sharing deals and, as a political lobby correspondent, covered British politics from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair.

From 1997 to 2001 Philippa was a BBC North America correspondent reporting from the White House on Bill Clinton's impeachment, from New York on Hillary Clinton's election to the Senate, and then from the campaign trail on the last two elections.

Philippa has criss-crossed the United States looking at serious issues at the very heart of American culture including investigating gun culture in Jonesboro Ark, meeting gang members in Los Angeles, joining the debate on stem cell research in Ohio and talking war with some of the United States' largest community of Iraqis in Dearborn, Michigan.

As a presenter, Philippa has fronted BBC News from studios in London, and the BBC bureau in Washington DC covering major stories including the 2008 US presidential election campaign, the US led military action in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the aftermath of 9/11.

Philippa has presented numerous BBC News specials on major global events including days of coverage on the aftermath of 9/11; the Al Qaeda railway bombs in Madrid; the terrorist attacks on the London underground; youth riots in Paris; the chaotic fall from power of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy; and the Israeli government targeting Hamas militants.