2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Human rights groups are calling for the release of Angolan human rights activists who were sentenced to prison Tuesday for alleged involvement in the deadly attack on Togo's national football team.Am

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sixty five years ago, during World War II, a B-29 bomber known as the "Enola Gay" dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Among the su

2010-08-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Lots of Americans have heard of the Klondike because of a popular ice-cream bar named after the place.It's in Canada, so we could call this essay Only in Canada. But the Klondike is right next to Ala

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel's border with Lebanon is tense but quiet, a day after a deadly clash raised fears of a new round of conflict.The United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon has backed Israel's version

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Opinion polls indicate support in Britain for the war in Afghanistan is falling as the public grows skeptical of the government's justification for the conflict. A total of 15 British servicemen wer

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A West African regional court in Nigeria says it will make a decision next month on the case of ousted Niger President Mamadou Tandja, who has been detained since a February coup.A West African region

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. troops will begin their drawdown in Iraq at the end of this month, but there still is no government in place and violence is on the rise. On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council urged Iraq's re

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Peter Heller was 48 when he decided to take up the sport of surfing.What followed was a six-month odyssey of catching waves along the Pacific coast, during which Heller learned lessons not only about

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Life as a blues musician is often a balancing act between touring, recording or working odd jobs just to make ends meet. One such musician's days of driving trucks and selling firewood are far behi

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Medical researchers are finding out more about the health risks of air pollution. They say the world's dependence on fossil fuels is largely responsible for increased risk of heart attack and stroke.

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Roads, shopping centers and housing developments are generally seen as enhancing a community's quality of life. But they can also disrupt the delicate water cycle that provides food, recreation and h

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Water flowing from an open tap is a luxury for only a few people in Penjaringan, one of Jakarta's densest neighborhoods. The French-run PT Palyja, one of two private companies that control Jakarta's

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Reasearchers in Israel have developed an electronic controller that allows severely disabled people to control their wheelchairs or computers with a simple sniff of the nose.Injury or disease can leav

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Australian military is fine-tuning its defensive capabilities with war games involving its Asia-Pacific neighbors.

Exercise Pitch Black is a three-week air combat exercise in Darwin, in norther

2010-08-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Britain-based charity ActionAid says heavy rains are hampering operations to evacuate people in Pakistan caught in the worst floods in 80 years. The death toll has reached 1,500 and an estimated t

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Clashes along the border between the Israeli military and the Lebanese Army have many Lebanese worried about a wider war between the two countries. The fighting has produced casualties on both sides.

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There has been a deadly flare-up of violence on the Israel-Lebanon border.Israeli and Lebanese troops exchanged fire in an incident that broke years of relative calm on the border. There are conflict

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The former head of South Africa's national police force and former president of Interpol has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for corruption.Judge Mayer Joffe imposed the 15-year sentence on form

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Arab Emirates says it is disappointed with the United States for criticizing its decision to ban key Blackberry communication services.United Arab Emirate officials say they plan to suspend

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Two years ago, Kenya's Rift Valley was the epicenter of ethnic violence that followed the country's disputed presidential elections. As the country heads to the polls again Wednesday to vote on a d

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Chris Wojciechowski is a professional golfer, but he doesn't play the game with balls and clubs. He uses round, flat, Frisbee-like discs and a good snap of the wrist."I mean, there's just a thrill i

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States today. But for many Americans, Islam is associated with extremists like Osama bin Laden. To shed light on this religious group and counter

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The International Energy Agency recently said China has become the world's biggest energy consumer - surpassing the United States. While Beijing disputes the IEA findings, claiming its calculations

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In a three-and-a-half-page document, General Petraeus' first two guidance points order his forces to "secure and serve the population" and "live among the people." His 24 points also include fighting

2010-08-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Officials here are attributing Iran's apparent renewed interest in nuclear talks to the growing network of sanctions against Tehran, which the Obama administration further tightened in two new action