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。
Host: welcome back, now hold the Grande Cappuccino, the coffee chain Starbucks has been forced to close its branch in Beijing's Forbidden City. The company said the decision to close had been congenial, but since the caf opened 7 years ago, it's bec...
Did the British and American governments routinely cover up information about UFOs? The answer appears to be yes to an extent, anyway. The Ministry of Defence has said that it will start releasing thousands of secret UFO documents it's held, for in...
Channel 4 News has learnt that Google could be forced to carry a cigarette-box style warning about privacy on its websites. The Internet search giant has amassed a massive database of personal information about its users, including what sites we visi...
Thank you all very much indeed. Now the body of an 89-year-old woman is being exhumed by the police tonight as they investigate the death of seven elderly people at a care home. In an un-press dent investigation by even some said , police --- bodies...
Margaret Thatcher, Ted Heath, John Major, not only grammar school-educated themselves, but staunch supporters of academic selection. At the last election, Michael Howard promised they'd thrive. But today the Conservatives, led by Esion-educated David...
Now you'd think that from a health point of view, lying in a hospital was probably the safest place to be, but More4 News and Channel4 News Online have discovered the number of deaths in hospitals due to medical errors have doubled in the last 2 year...
Welcome back, you're watching Channel 4 News. Now controlling inflation has been at the very heart of the government's claims of economic competence. But today for the first time in ten years, the rate of inflation rose above Gordon Brown's target. T...
Smoking in pubs and bars in Wales is now illegal after the ban on smoking in enclosed public places came into force this morning. Wales is the second part of the UK to introduce the ban and anyone breaking the law faces a hefty fine, well, our report...
Now, should a library be a quiet place to read a book or a lively centre where you can hang out and drink coffee? And can it be both? Author Tracy Chevalier who is also chairman of the Society of Authors, told More4 News she is worried library is sac...
The victims of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster (are) being remembered to the service in Dover. Survivors and relatives of those who died sang hymn s and read eulogies at the church service. Twenty years ago, 193 people died when the Herald of Free Enter...
Institution Meets Institution. It's destined to be the ultimate get-together. Following her Oscar for her portrayal of Elizabeth Windsor, Helen Mirren is like to receive an invite from Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen herself. She is the first Bri...
Now China's sizzling(red-hot) economy is growing at its fastest rate in a decade. This year 5 million young people will graduate from the country's universities, with the potential to boost China's economy still further. But the government estimates...
Taking her first step towards running for the White House next year, Hilary Clinton was confident to victory. I am in to win. she wrote on her website. The former First Lady and New York senator today set up an exploratory committee, allowing her to...
It all seemed to fit so perfectly at the beginning, the world's most glamorous footballer is signing for the world's most glamorous club in the warm glow of the bright Madrid sunshine. But now the Galactico is fading and No.23 and the name Beckham wo...
Welcome back. It was a futuristic vision of efficiency or in our value in nightmare depending on your point of view. The government had been planning two huge computer databases, one to store all of our personal identity information, / the other our...
