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About RSS feeds
What is RSS?
As well as publishing our content on this website we also publish it via RSS ("Really Simple Syndication").
Our RSS feeds allow you to see all of our latest content, together with content from across the web that you’ve subscribed to, in one place, as soon as it’s published.
Why subscribe?
Without RSS, to check your favourite sites for updates you have to visit them, read through the content and work out if anything has changed.
With RSS your RSS reader (see How to subscribe below) aggregates content from the all the sites you’re interested in, monitors them for updates, and records what you’ve read.
You might be interested in updates to our News stories, the BBC's Mexico country profile, and Google news about Swine flu in Mexico. Because all of this content is syndicated with RSS you can subscribe to it all, be alerted when it’s updated and read it all side-by-side in a single page.
So RSS saves you time and It’s a much more efficient way to use the web.
How to subscribe
To use RSS you need an RSS reader. Readers are generally free and can be web-based, desktop-based, or mobile-device-based (RSS is a great way to get updates on the go). Try Google reader (web-based) or Apple's iTunes (desktop-based) to get started.
Once you have a reader you can subscribe to a site’s feed by clicking the orange RSS icon either in the web page or the address bar. Your RSS reader will take care of the rest, checking for updates and monitoring items that you’ve read.
Not for you?
If you don’t like the sound of RSS you can subscribe to our content by email. Find out more about email alerts.