MUMBAI: The beeb is looking to enhance its presence in the Arab online world. With this mind it has announced the finalisation a deal.

This will enable bilingual Arab and English portal Ajeeb.com to display headlines and news summaries from the BBC's English and Arabic websites, bbcnews.com and bbcarabic.com.

A company release states that Ajeeb.com will give priority to the BBC's news websites amongst all news sources recommended to its visitors and to the users of Johaina. This is the portal's automated news monitoring service which collects and categorises online news headlines and summaries in navigable directories around the clock.

Ajeeb.com's business development director Fahad Al Sharekh added that the collaboration with the bbcarabic.com represented an ideal step towards developing mutually beneficial business relationships on the Internet.