英国广播公司（British Broadcasting Corporation），简称BBC，是英国的一家政府资助但却独立运作的媒体，长久以来一直被认为是全球最受尊敬的媒体之一。在相当长的一段时间内BBC一直垄断着英国的电视、电台。在1955年独立电视台和1973年独立电台成立之前，BBC一直是全英国唯一的电视、电台广播公司。今天BBC除了是一家在全球拥有高知名度的媒体，还提供其他各种服务，包括书籍出版、报刊、英语教学、交响乐团和互联网新闻服务。
Ford Motor is betting on Brazil. The US auto giant is planning on investing more than 2 billion dollars in Brazil to boost output as record-low borrowing costs and recovery in what is Latin America's largest economy still demand for new cars. Mark Fi...
The luxury home of one of the world's most famous sport stars, the scene of a bizarre sequence of events, now the subject of police inquiry. Just after two on Friday morning, 33-year-old Tiger Woods drove out of his house alone; his car first hit a f...
Actually it has just gone half of high tides so this is a battle that is going to get here. You can see that the River Stour has burst its banks, the river rayvon is not very faraway either so there is an awful lot of water around here. Obviously its...
President Obama urged House Democrats to pass a broad health care reform bill, calling it This Generation's Moment. I urge members of Congress to rise to this moment, answer the call of history and vote yes for health insurance reform for America. Ho...
There's never been so much attention focused on keeping our children safe. In the wake of the baby Peter Case, care referrals have soared, so much so the courts can't keep up, leaving many children lost in the system. Sara Miles knows how that feels....
Well. Otto is always being told us that he looks half of his age, but yes, he is 145 years young. Here are the owners. He is in human years, twenty years and eight months old. He is actually pretty sprightly but, ah, he's been tired now. He has been...
Authorities in the Russian town of Tomsk are accused of storing radioactive waste from power stations in a nearby closed town. The allegation surfaced after a French newspaper and documentary accused energy producer EDF of sending nuclear waste to Si...
Any visit to London by the Secretary of State is important. But the timing of this one adds interest. Hillary Clintons trip comes of the back of a-week-long discussion in Washington about the strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Its approaching dec...
Things on the American Homefront seem to be getting better. A key Home Price Index rose much more than expected in July, and for the third month in a row. JR Sangiuliano, a realtor in central New Jersey is on the frontlines of the middle class housin...
Championship races, two world titles up for grabs but one big difference: the crowd. It seems sport is the last bastion of sexism and cycling is no different. At the World Road Championships this week, the woman's time trial event attracted around a...
After a hectic week of fittings, photo shoots and fashion shows, New York Fashion Week is over. But for designers, the challenge goes on. How to get consumers shopping in the biggest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Anna Wintour, editor-...
It is a picture in the future so. This may look like a farm but it is not. And Debi Servela is not a farmer. But he is one of the growing number of people who are bring home the beken. Rising pigs in their own gardens so they can eat them. I think on...
Despite signs that the near 2-year US recession may be over, Americans are still finding it hard to get a job. The closely watched unemployment rate soared more than expected to 9.7% in the month of August, a 26-year high, according to the Labor Depa...
A global emissions-reduction deal: that's the ultimate goal of the UN's climate conference in Copenhagen. But with just a hundred days left before it takes place, that deal is looking shaky. In December, Delegates from some a hundred and ninety count...
Thousands of evacuees took refuge in churches and temples in southern Taiwan on Monday, waiting for road repair that would allow a return to their homes. Some fear that could take months or years due to the state of the roads damaged by massive lands...
