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This is a good one. The BBC made an unfortunate booby last week when, during a lunchtime news broadcast, it used a logo for Halo's completely make believe United Nations Space Command whilst discussing the current real-world Syrian conflict. See the booby for yourself:

Obviously what the BBC meant to show was the logo of the totally legitimate United Nations Security Council. But if you type 'UNSC' into Google image search you'll get a good idea of how the logo malfunction occurred.

Above: One of these logos belongs to an organisation established in the 22nd Century by the Unified Earth Government. The other does not

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In acknowledgment of the booby and to squash any rumours of Space Command's involvement in Syria, the BBC has issued the following response:

"BBC News makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all images broadcast, however very occasionally mistakes do happen. Unfortunately an incorrect logo was used during a segment on last week's News at One bulletin and we apologise to viewers for the mistake.

"The image was not broadcast in our later bulletins."

Source: Eurogamer

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