2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

American Actress Mia Farrow has testified at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor. She told the court at The Hague that in 1997 supermodel Naomi Campbell claimed to have b

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Voting is underway in Rwanda's second presidential election since the 1994 genocide. Though four candidates are vying for the nation's highest office, many expect President Paul Kagame to be reelec

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A newly-formed writers' syndicate in Tunisia is calling for the government there to provide more benefits for its members. The syndicate says some of its members are suffering from poverty, a lack o

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Norman Rockwell is one of the best-known American artists of the 20th century.His illustrations appeared in advertisements, on calendars and most notably on magazine covers. Rockwell died in 1978. Man

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the shadow of London's British Museum, is a bit of South Africa's desert.The museum, working with Kew Botanical Gardens, shipped two refrigerated containers full of South African flowers, shrubs

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Stephen Kress made his name by bringing Atlantic puffins back to the state of Maine, where hunters had decimated the birds by the 20th century.Now, as director of seabird restoration for the National

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Chicago White Sox baseball team is managed by a jovial but outspoken Venezuela native, Ozzie Guillén.A 15-year major-league player and seven-year manager, he sometimes erupts into animated and pr

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A review mission from international regulator the Kimberley Process are scheduled to travel Tuesday to southeastern Zimbabwe Tuesday, where they will inspect the controversial diamond fields in the Ma

2010-08-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, says the country continues to face real security challenges weeks before the end of the U.S. combat mission in the country."We have ups and d

2010-08-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It is called patch trading. And it is the most popular hobby for thousands of Boy Scouts.Scouts spend countless hours making deals for these colorful clothing patches. James Coon says many act like Wa

2010-08-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new poll indicates that most Arabs disapprove of President Barack Obama and are discouraged by U.S. policies in the Middle East. The results also show that Arabs think Iran is trying to acquire weap

2010-08-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There are more than 430 members in the U.S. House of Representatives, but only 73 of them are women. Many of these women left behind family and friends to represent their districts in the U.S. Congres

2010-08-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over the last decade, oil production has slipped in Venezuela, even as estimates of the country's petroleum reserves have grown. Venezuela's reserves are now thought to be the world's largest, givi

2010-08-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Merchants across Cairo are stocking their shelves with dates, nuts, figs, and apricot paste for the start of the holy month of Ramadan. Many also are stringing lights and lanterns to decorate for the

2010-08-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said last week illegal Roma immigrants, also known as Gypsies, will be expelled from the country and hundreds of their camps will be dismantled.
He said Romas who h

2010-08-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Some 60 people have died and about 200 others injured in flash floods that have inundated India's mountainous Ladakh region of Indian Kashmir. The floods have caused unprecedented devastation in the

2010-08-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sixty-five years after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki -- at the end of World War II - the U.S. view on nuclear weapons has changed. The Obama

2010-08-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has been visiting Britain for most of this week amid a high-profile diplomatic dispute concerning recent comments by Britain's prime minister linking Pakistan to

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations is seeking to calm tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border after a sudden outbreak of violence this week.United Nations, Israeli, and Lebanese commanders met in South Lebanon in a bid

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Indian Kashmir, authorities are struggling to control spiraling street protests, which have led to the death of more than 45 people in the past six weeks. It is the worst violence in two years.

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than 100 youth leaders from across Africa have wrapped up three days of high-profile, high-level meetings in Washington, with hopes for new action and plans to network for positive change on the

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Qadisha Valley in northern Lebanon is an area of early Christian monastic settlement where Maronite Christians have been coming to live and pray since the late 7th century. The deep gorge carved b

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Economists have long known that moods, weather, even religious beliefs can affect investor behavior. Now, a new study shows that stock returns during the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan, vary significan

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The arrival of oil-tainted waste to federally approved landfills across the Gulf coast is raising concerns are raised about the potential impact on the environment and public healthAn estimated 700 mi

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Almost all cells need iron to grow. Now, researchers have identified a link between the body's system for regulating iron and breast cancer. The discovery could help doctors predict the course of bre