2011-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The head of the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) in Ethiopia says the country's emergency food stocks are almost completely exhausted, with drought conditions expected to worsen before they improve. Th

2011-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hundreds of Britons have petitioned their government to reintroduce the death penalty in a new government Internet scheme that was launched Thursday. "E-petitions" that get enough signatures may be de

2011-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Liberia's electoral commission is working to safeguard voting along the border with Ivory Coast, where hundreds of mercenaries from the recent Ivorian political crisis are under arrest and thousands

2011-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak appeared in a courtroom cage Wednesday charged with the murder of anti-government protesters and corruption. The trial, unprecedented in Egyptian history, is r

2011-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Many archaeologists believe humans first migrated to North America over the Bering Strait 15,000-to-18,000 years ago. They lived a nomadic lifestyle of hunting and gathering. Then, starting about 2,00

2011-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A comic book super hero whose exploits began in the 1940's is back as one of this year's big action movies. Here's a look at Captain America: The First Avenger.

"General Patton has said that war

2011-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Singer-songwriter Bill Morrissey, 59, died on July 23, but his death hasn’t received the same attention as that of Amy Winehouse on the same day. Based in the northeastern state of New Hampshire, Mo

2011-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations says three more areas of Somalia have now slipped into famine. The famine is expected to spread further unless there is immediate intervention.The U.N.'s food security analysis un

2011-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Caves have a subconscious hold on our imaginations - for our ancestors, they were not just shelter from the elements but also symbols of the womb, gateways to the underworld, places of wonder and myst

2011-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As the month of Ramadan begins, many millions of Muslims around the world are joining in a collective fast intended to help purify their souls. But for the more than half a million African-American M

2011-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who admits to killing 77 people last month, allegedly contributed to a range of online neo-Nazi, nationalist and anti-Islam forums. Now the European Union’s

2011-08-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama has signed legislation Tuesday to raise the U.S. debt ceiling, averting a potential government default only hours before the deadline. The president called the bill an importan

2011-08-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Egyptian officials are making last-minute preparations for the televised trial of ex- President Hosni Mubarak, his two sons and several other former top officials. The possibility of the ex-leader fac

2011-08-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A California company is developing a new type of airship for transporting cargo and, possibly, passengers. It is not an airplane and not a blimp, but has elements of both. The vehicle uses new techn

2011-08-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In May of 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton set the goal of developing a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, within 10 years. The Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of He

2011-08-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Since the Panama Canal opened a passageway between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans nearly a century ago, nearly one million ships have sailed through. Building the channel across the Isthmus of P

2011-08-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Drought and famine are forcing tens of thousands of Somalis to abandon their homes and seek assistance in the capital, Mogadishu, or neighboring countries. The U.N. World Food Program and other agenci

2011-08-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For centuries, immigrants have come to America in search of a better life. That's the path William Levine took in the late 1800s, hoping for greater opportunity than what was available to a poor Jew

2011-08-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Have you heard of mail dogs?

Not male dogs, as in the masculine half of the species. Dogs that actually carried letters and packages in the days of the Old American West. And pooches that tagged al

2011-08-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Global Investors breathed a collective sigh of relief, following news that U.S. politicians had reached tentative agreement on raising the government's debt limit - avoiding a possible default. Fina

2011-08-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The political wrangling in the United States over the national debt ceiling has helped push the dollar to record lows, and the price of gold above $1,600 an ounce, double where it was two years ago.I

2011-07-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As he continues to deal with the U.S. debt crisis, President Barack Obama met on Friday with four visiting African heads of state. Obama said the leaders represent expanding democracy in Africa, and t

2011-07-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In parts of the world where it is summer time and schools are out, many kids go to camps for different activities and fun. In Africa, there is a growing trend among U.S.-based aid groups to organize

2011-07-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Economic problems are spurring a growing wave of protests in Israel on Saturday.Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets of cities around the country to protest the high cost of living, from

2011-07-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A terror attack in Norway last week, which was carried out by an extreme right-wing Norwegian man, has raised questions about security threats in Europe. Is the perceived threat from Islamic extremism