www.bbc.com BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation, is a renowned name all over the world as a media brand. www.bbc.com, as BBC’s official website, enjoys a great popularity among millions of billions, including native speakers and English learners. Same as other news & broadcasting agency, bbc.com covers news from politics, finance, sports, recreation, TV channels to weather.

Logging on this homepage, top news stories will be displayed accompanied with descriptive pictures. This will lead you to various kinds of events you are interested and learn more about the world. Sometimes, video clips are available and you can get a better glance of news. Background information and related articles will be shown on one side of the page as references. Questions that readers asked and responses will be linked on the page, and anybody is able to leave their comments after the article. As an international news agency, it categorizes the news into different groups according to regions like Africa, America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East, South Asia, and UK; and different themes like business, health, science and environment, technology and entertainment. It offers you an easier to locate the story that you want to dig into. One-minute world news video will offer you a quick, fast and 360°of the current events. I have read a lot of news out there, comparatively, they are objective.

Apart from the politics, those who jump on the business bandwagon will not feel to be left out. On its main page, stock index and prices of major stock market are there. So you can have the up-close look at the updated stock information.

BBC.com allows web viewers to personalize their own BBC page, by adding stuff and offering links, sometimes even changing the outlay. You can edit each part of the page, for instance, business and money; you can edit by adding market data, economy, sterling exchange rate, companies, your money and top stories or just eliminate them. This procedure can also be followed when you click on some other parts of the website. What is also fascinating about BBC.com is that its homepage’s theme color changes from day to day; it can either be hilariously red or environmental-friendly green. Time and date are displayed and adjusted according to your own region.

Online radio world service is probably the biggest selling point of BBC.com, which distinguishes itself from the rest overwhelming media. Various news and programs can be listened online or even downloaded. Your choices of different channels are abundant; from standard national to music, entertainment, sports and outside UK.

BBC.com is probably the only website that I have seen that carries the largest amount of language services: news can be translated and read in 32 different languages. Learning English is also a popular website for English learners all over the world, it does help to promote the language and the culture.

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