title: George Alagiah
text: George Maxwell Alagiah  ( born 22 November 1955) is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter. He was born in Colombo, Ceylon.
  
  Since December 2007, he has been the presenter of the BBC News at Six and has also been the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since the year February 2010. He is also the main presenter for the BBC Ten O'Clock News since 2000.
  
  In April 2014, Unfortunately, Maxwell was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. In March 2018, he said his cancer was terminal.
  
  References
  
  Other websites
  
   
   Profile from BBC Newswatch
   Career (from World People's Blog) 
   BBC World: George Alagiah joins BBC World to present new peak-time news programme
  
  1955 births
  Living people
  People with cancer
  British journalists
  British television presenters
  BBC people
  Television news anchors
  People from Colombo