2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new partnership is being launched to develop a malaria vaccine that would prevent parasites from entering the liver. Most of the symptoms of the disease develop after parasites have had time to repl

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Russian authorities closed Red Square and cordoned off the Kremlin after President Dmitry Medvedev warned race riots threaten "the stability of the state."Hundreds of riot police, dressed in black hel

2010-12-15 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Swedish authorities believe a Swedish citizen living in Britain was the suicide bomber who died in one of two explosions Saturday in Stockholm. The blast that killed the bomber in Stockholm December 1

2010-12-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Police in Sweden say they believe they have identified the man who blew himself up in the country's capital on Saturday. The man is Taimour Abdulwahab, a Swedish citizen who has been living in Britai

2010-12-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Top U.S. defense officials say the new strategy for the war in Afghanistan announced by President Barack Obama a year ago is working. Some military and intelligence analysts, however, say the fight is

2010-12-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

India's parliament ended its winter session deadlocked over a massive corruption scandal. The government and the opposition disagree over how to investigate the allegations of graft that have erupted

2010-12-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Since the November 23 shelling of Yeonpyeong island, there has been rising anger in South Korea. Many South Koreans are angry at what they consider their government's mild response to the attack, whi

2010-12-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Although the 2010 Football World Cup ended nearly six months ago, many people in South Africa are still basking in warm memories of the event, and most say it was the highlight of the year. For the o

2010-12-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States is giving $3 million in emergency food aid to the World Food Program to try to prevent widespread famine in southern Madagascar. The United Nations agency predicts 720,000 people in

2010-12-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It has been 15 years since the U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke brokered the Dayton Peace Accords that brought an end to four years of fighting in the Balkans. The peace agreement is still hailed

2010-12-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Computer hackers used to be mostly sophisticated criminals, high tech spies or new media pranksters. But now a new breed of hacker is engaged in what some call a cyber war of political activism. In th

2010-12-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

New York City has every kind of restaurant imaginable, from Albanian to Zambian. A French family of restaurateurs of Romanian and Vietnamese ancestry will soon enter this international mix. They will

2010-12-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Participants at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico are complaining about long delays amid heavy security. Some environmental activists say they are being kept well away fro

2010-12-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The largest effort ever to protect global food supplies against climate change was announced Friday in Rome.

One-fifth of the world's plants are threatened with extinction. It's Cary Fowler's mi

2010-12-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Country singer Keith Urban credits his wife, Nicole Kidman, with saving him from a life of alcoholism and drug addiction. That appreciation is heard throughout Keith's new album, "Get Closer.""Witho

2010-12-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hilleary: Some analysts say that the Wikileaks scandal is a huge blow to U.S. diplomacy abroad. Other say that the media are making more out of the leaks than is necessary, that this is just a lot o

2010-12-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Health Organization says about 500,000 people die every year from seasonal flu. To combat that, doctors recommend getting a flu vaccine at the beginning of each flu season and researchers ar

2010-12-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Estonia officially joins the Eurozone on January 1, becoming the 17th nation - the first in the Baltic region - to adopt the common European currency group. But with worries growing over Europe's ab

2010-12-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the early stages of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Purdue University mechanical engineering professor Steve Wereley watched the low-quality videos of the oil spill released by British Petroleum."I

2010-12-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A draft pension bill has created frustration and sometimes even panic among workers in Malawi, with some seeking early retirement before it passes. The bone of contention is a section setting the reti

2010-12-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reiterated a previous demand that Israel halt all settlement building before direct peace talks can resume, during a meeting Thursday with Egyptian Presid

2010-12-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The African Union on Thursday suspended Ivory Coast until its leadership dispute is settled. At the same time, the continental body reinstated Guinea, which was suspended after a military takeover two

2010-12-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Around the world, a woman's place is increasingly in a factory or shop, a government ministry, or in front of a classroom. As more women work, their children often spend the day in childcare. And wit

2010-12-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers call it the Lazarus effect – the dramatic beneficial changes that antiretroviral drugs – ARVs - can bring to HIV/AIDS patients and their families. The drugs are changing lives.In the bib

2010-12-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new analysis of data from a study of post-menopausal women is challenging existing guidelines on hormone therapy. The researchers say women taking estrogen alone are at a significantly lower risk of