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。
It's the biggest and most expensive party you're ever likely to host, the average UK wedding now costs around 23,000pounds. And while the credit crunch isnt stopping couples tying the knot. Many aren't prepared to get tied up in financial knots. So,...
He forecasts the economy will shrink by 3.5% this year, and to put it into context that is a big downward revision from his prediction in November of a shrinkage of 1.25%. But he did say the economy will start to recover by the end of this year. And...
The newspaper industry was already pressing through changes. The recession has simply accelerated the process. The figures make grim reading. In the past five years, some of the countries biggest and most established regional newspapers have seen the...
As world leaders discussed the conflict in Afghanistan, demonstrators fought the police. The center of Strasbourg is a fortress, but it didn't stop property from being smashed and set alight. As you can see, several hundred protesters have gathered h...
Prince Charles on royal duty at Buckingham Palace, safe in the knowledge that even if the rules on the succession and royal marriage are dragged into the 21st century, hell still get to be king. Princes William and Harry too are safe in the pecking o...
Everyones got an opinion about how bad the global recession will be and what to do about it. Just as Gordon Brown has been trying to get European leaders to pump more money into their economies, respected forecasters, the Ernst and Young ITEM Club ar...
When they met earlier this month, both President Obama and Gordon Brown looked forward to coordinated international action to boost the global economy. One of the things that Prime Minister Brown and I talked about is how can we coordinate so that al...
This is where money is made and lost. But with uncertainty about the stability of America's largest banks and mounting worries about the state of General Motors, today was all about loss. For the first time, General Motors has admitted their substant...
These are momentous times and now a banking failure that has contaminated the whole economy. We are being lashed by an economic hurricane, people's savings, mortgages and jobs at risk. It may be called a party policy forum, but it seems there's no di...
The gleaming surface betrays the fact that like the rest of the world, Hollywood is experiencing an economic slump. In the build-up to the Oscars, LA is putting on its habitual show of shimmering decadence. But beneath the surface, times are harder t...
There is a chill wind blowing through the campus of Keele university these days and it's nothing to do with the weather. Students fear the recession and the downturn in graduate recruitment, may mean their studies lead them nowhere, but a dole queue....
So who knew what, when and where do we point the finger of blame? The paper trail is working its way up Downing Street as allegations threatened to become corroborations. The charge is that Gordon Brown as chancellor knew that HBOS was taking risks a...
Could these women help save us all from the financial crisis? China has transformed itself from drab Communism to the world's third biggest economy with 1.3 billion consumers hungry for the decade of fruits of capitalism. And they might be the ones w...
It was on Wednesday that police made their horrifying discovery of the bodies of three-year-old Harry and two-year-old Elise Donnison, having smashed and opened the boot of silver Nissan, parked near their former family home in Heathfield, East Susse...
Its been a long journey for these Haitian children. Now in the United States, they are about to start a new life with their adoptive parents. Because of the earthquake, um, the children were released to their parents that they're at homes waiting for...
