2011-04-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Alassane Ouattara is moving to restore security in Ivory Coast one week after his country's political crisis ended with the arrest of former president Laurent Gbagbo. Mr. Gbagbo held on to

2011-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Two anti-corruption rallies were held Saturday afternoon in Moscow.Russians turned out on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Moscow for two rival protests against corruption, the top issue on voters minds

2011-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Small and peaceful anti-nuclear protests continue to be staged in Japan. The demonstrations are being held as troubles continue at and around the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant in the northeastern pa

2011-04-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Global food prices have risen by 36 percent in the past year, according to figures released this week by the World Bank. The Bank hosted its spring meetings in Washington this week, where it called on

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

NATO foreign ministers wrapped up two days of talks in Berlin still divided on ways of intensifying the air campaign on Libya.NATO foreign ministers offered a show of unity in calling for the departur

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Large demonstrations were reported in over half a dozen Syrian cities Friday, as opponents of the government demanded more freedom and called on the government to release political prisoners. Large p

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The fighting in Libya has devastated coastal cities in the central part of the country, but life in parts of the rebel-controlled east has settled into some measure of uneasy calm.It is market day at

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Most Americans know that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. But they probably don’t know that Booth was part of a complex conspiracy. Booth was hunted down and shot

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Memory loss and mental confusion are the first overt signs of Alzheimer's Disease, an incurable and fatal brain ailment.But scientists are starting to find evidence of the disease long before symptom

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study finds that combining four tuberculosis drugs into one pill could help fight drug-resistant strains of the disease. One of the main reasons those strains develop is because many TB patients

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A resident of Texas has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Award for his work confronting refineries on pollution in the town of Port Arthur. The city has a population of 60,000 and one of the

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Obama Administration recently reversed a decision about the trial venue for alleged 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He and four alleged co-conspirators now face justice in a military trib

2011-04-16 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scientists are developing an entirely new type of prosthetic arm and hand that allows a patient to regain not only movement, but also the sense of touch. American soldiers who have lost limbs in the w

2011-04-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The uprising against the 41-year rule of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi began peacefully. But when government troops used force to suppress the demonstrations, they escalated into what increasingly loo

2011-04-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pressure is mounting on the Kenyan government to seek the release of eight human rights activists being detained in Uganda in connection with the July terrorist attacks in Kampala.In the past few days

2011-04-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. envoy overseeing the Cyprus peace negotiations said he believes there is a chance of breaking the deadlock in peace talks between the rival Greek and Turkish communities on the Mediterranean

2011-04-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The political wrangling in Washington about federal budgets is likely to get more intense as the stakes rise from billions of dollars to trillions. Some of the focus is changing from a squabble over

2011-04-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It’s April and time once again to celebrate one of America’s greatest treasures, jazz with the 10th anniversary of Jazz Appreciation Month.Jazz took a giant step forward when pianist Mary Lou Willia

2011-04-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Mentoring is a time-honored relationship, in which someone with more experience helps another with less, for purposes of growth, knowledge and support. That’s the idea behind Mentoring USA, a New Yor

2011-04-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Government restrictions on the media in the parts of Libya controlled by Moammar Gadhafi make it difficult to get uncensored news out of Tripoli. But a VOA correspondent has contacts in Libya and has

2011-04-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

With the mandate of Somalia’s transitional government nearing an end, the United Nations has convened a conference in Nairobi to discuss the future of the Horn of Africa nation. But with some major s

2011-04-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Men in the Bible - such as Abraham, Moses, King David - are often well-developed characters playing a central role in complex stories. But, more and more authors are focusing on the women of the Bible

2011-04-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

While the U.N.-commissioned report has not yet been made public, Sri Lanka's External Ministry rejected it Wednesday as "fundamentally flawed." The ministry issued a statement saying the report deali

2011-04-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nigeria’s economy is the second-largest in sub-Saharan Africa, after South Africa, but observers say that status is deceiving. They complain that Nigeria, despite billions of oil revenues and nearly

2011-04-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Though he has covered wars and conflicts, journalist Peter Godwin wasn't prepared for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland, in 2008