2010-12-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is in Kenya as the country anxiously awaits his warrants for the masterminds of the country's post-election chaos.As he winds down his inves

2010-12-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hundreds of thousands of southern Sudanese who fled their homeland during Sudan's civil war are signing up to vote absentee in the January 9 independence referendum. Former war orphans, the so-called

2010-12-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has urged South Africans to take collective responsibility to reduce the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Motlanthe was speaking at an event to mark World

2010-12-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On World AIDS Day, AIDS activists gathered in Washington DC and demanded that President Barack Obama do more to stop the AIDS epidemic in the United States and around the world. Outside the White Hous

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, beginning a three-day Central Asian trip in Kazakhstan, said Tuesday the Obama administration will continue to press for human rights progress in the region. Clinto

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Some AIDS workers in Liberia say the way to stem the country's HIV rate is to urge women to wear female condoms. But others argue the female condom is impractical, and broader HIV/AIDS education is n

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

George Washington was born into a world where slavery was an accepted part of life. When his father died in 1743, Washington - at the age of 11 - inherited 10 slaves.

When the nation's first pres

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new biography by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff tackles the life, death and legacy of Cleopatra. Schiff's work challenges some of the assumptions long held about Egypt's last queen.It

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Since a January earthquake in Haiti, tent camps have become home to hundreds of thousands of people, including newly pregnant women. Some Haitians fear unplanned pregnancies in the camps may fuel a ba

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than 40 European Union and African leaders met in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for the third African Union-European Union Summit. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi chaired the summit, slamming inter

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study by the United Nations Children's Fund says discrimination and stigmatization limit women and children getting access to HIV prevention, treatment and social protection. UNICEF is calling

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

2010 was a season of change in men's tennis, with Spain's Rafael Nadal taking over the top spot in the world rankings from Switzerland's Roger Federer. Federer can look ahead to the 2011 season wit

2010-12-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations Climate Change Conference got underway in the Mexican beach resort of Cancun Monday with calls for decisive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide as part of an effort

2010-11-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thousands of babies are abandoned in Morocco every year because their single mothers are too afraid to face family and friends. Instead of just taking in abandoned children, one nonprofit has begun wo

2010-11-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

No matter what image the name Cleopatra conjures up - a seductress who swayed two Roman rulers, the actress Elizabeth Taylor or the tragic heroine in a play by William Shakespeare - Egypt's last quee

2010-11-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy says individual Americans have the right and responsibility to help shape U.S. foreign relations. This month, it hosted a summit in Washington with the goal of ge

2010-11-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study warns of the potential problems Africa faces from rising temperatures. The Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) says the continent must learn to adapt to shorte

2010-11-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Chicago, Illinois has a long tradition of producing some of today's finest blues. The tradition continues with the introduction of three rising blues stars on a new label called Swississippi Records

2010-11-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For the last 50 years, scientists and astronomers have been training their telescopes into space in the search for signs of intelligent life. Frank Drake is a trailblazer in that quest.

Spellbound

2010-11-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Expectations for concrete results at a climate change conference getting under way in Mexico are low, following the failure of world leaders to endorse a legally binding treaty to limit greenhouse gas

2010-11-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Despite public awareness campaigns, people with HIV-AIDS in Asia say they still face social stigma and discrimination. Nearly 5 million people in the region have been infected by the virus. In Thailan

2010-11-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

International AIDS Day provides an opportunity to examine the efforts to combat the deadly virus that attacks the human immune system. In South Africa, whose 5.7 million HIV victims make it the most a

2010-11-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One of the first studies of the effectiveness of flu vaccine in young children suggests that vaccination should be considered for youngsters before they reach their first birthday.Older adults are con

2010-11-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaoré won a landslide victory in the country's presidential poll, according to provisional results announced Thursday. Four opposition candidates are now contesting

2010-11-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One of the newest sources of alternative energy is also one of the oldest - water power. The 19th century water wheel, though, bears no resemblance to the 21st century contraptions powered by ocean wa