2010-11-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Obama's decision to leave Kashmir as a bilateral India-Pakistan matter will come as a disappointment to those who hoped for a more robust U.S. role in mediating the conflict. That includes

2010-11-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A collection of more than 100 items of African art is now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the first stop in a U.S. tour of rare art works from Nigeria's Ife region. The exhibition i

2010-11-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On the second full day of his three day visit to India, President Barack Obama conducted a "Town Hall" meeting with students at a Catholic college in the financial center, Mumbai. Mr. Obama and his w

2010-11-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Health officials are concerned that Hurricane Tomas could cause the cholera outbreak in Haiti to get even worse. The waterborne disease is already blamed for the deaths of more than 400 people there.

2010-11-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The American City of St. Louis, Missouri — often called the Gateway to the West — is perhaps best known for a towering, architectural marvel. The city sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and

2010-11-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When President Barack Obama visits Indonesia this month (November 9-10), he is expected to recognize the work of Peace Corps volunteers as a model for cultural and educational exchanges between the Un

2010-11-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There's been lots of research over the years concluding that physically active people are less likely to have serious conditions, such as heart disease. Now, a new study indicates that those who enga

2010-11-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers in California are showing some promising results with a new approach to treating stroke. The scientists are focusing on getting undamaged parts of the brain to take over functions impaired

2010-11-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pakistani officials say a suicide bomb has ripped through a mosque in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 70 people and critically wounding more than 80 people. There was no immediate claim of respo

2010-11-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Indonesia's Mount Merapi has unleashed a violent eruption that more than doubled its earlier death toll, to more than 100 people. It has also forced evacuation camps to relocate, and the president ha

2010-11-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations says more than 27 million people are displaced within more than 50 countries around the world as a result of armed conflicts. At least half this group - more than 13 million - are c

2010-11-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers in Britain say electric brain stimulation might one day be used to restore abilities lost through illness or maybe just help a prospective engineering student improve her math skills. An

2010-11-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Public health is at growing risk from urban conditions such as pollution, noise, overcrowding and stress, according to experts who met in New York for the Ninth International Conference on Urban Healt

2010-11-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

British authorities are dismissing Iranian state TV claims that four Kurdish men accused of carrying out assassinations are linked to Britain.Iran's intelligence ministry is claiming to have broken u

2010-11-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Women's Voices Now

When human rights lawyer Catinca Tabacaru heard that someone was thinking about putting together a film festival about Muslim women, she knew she had to get involved.

So, in

2010-11-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The video-sharing website YouTube has taken hundreds of videos of a Yemen-based cleric from its site because it says they incite violence.Roshonara Choudhry, 21, was given a life sentence Wednesday in

2010-11-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A non governmental organization in Nigeria called Sightsavers is working to help restore sight to visually impaired people. The Federal Ministry of Health recently conducted a survey on visual Impairm

2010-11-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A resurgent Republican Party is basking in the afterglow of its best midterm electoral showing in 16 years. Republicans scored a huge majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, pared the Democrati

2010-11-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A U.N. agency warns that more than 50-million sheep and goats in 15 southern Africa countries may be at risk of contracting a deadly viral disease. The warning follows an outbreak of the disease earl

2010-11-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Many people in South Asia are assessing the results of the U.S. midterm elections.

The opposition Republicans have taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives from President Barack Obama's

2010-11-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, the founder of the world's largest gas company Gazprom, has passed away at the age of 72. No cause of death has been released.Viktor Chernomyrdin wa

2010-11-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At this week's HSBC Champions Golf event in Shanghai, China, three players will battle to dethrone newly-minted world number one, Lee Westwood of England. All hot on the Englishman's trail are Tiger

2010-11-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study on Alzheimer's disease shows that women end up bearing most of the burden - as caregivers, advocates for those with the disease and as victims of the disease itself. The report asks Congr

2010-11-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a country famed for its distance runners and sweltering sun, few would expect Kenya to be enthusiastic about winter sports. But at an ice rink in the capital, some young Kenyans are playing a new a

2010-11-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Preparations are already underway for a U.N. summit in September of next year on preventing and controlling noncommunicable diseases, such as cancer, heart and lung disease, diabetes and stroke.Noncom