2010-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The 'summer' movie season is starting with a bang: the sequel to a 2008 blockbuster that brings back Robert Downey, Jr. in the dual roles of billionaire playboy and rocket-powered super-hero leaping

2010-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scholars, aid workers, and government officials from 22 countries are in Dakar this week for the U.N. Girls' Education Initiative's global conference aimed at finding new ways to get and keep girls

2010-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At the edge of the Sahara desert, Niger has cycles of drought, locust infestations, and sudden floods that have caused food insecurity and malnutrition throughout the years - in the early 1970's, the

2010-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study by a federally-funded peace organization urges the United States to step up pressure on its Middle East allies to move their societies toward meaningful democracy. The U.S Institute of Pea

2010-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Siye Abraha is not a new name in Ethiopian politics. But the former rebel commander and former minister of defense is new to opposition forces.

Siye, a former top ranking official with the ruling p

2010-05-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Paris-based Reporters Without Borders is calling for the immediate release of three journalists and an employee of the daily newspaper Rai Al Shaab, who were detained late Saturday. The four have yet

2010-05-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nigerian lawmakers approved Muslim politician, Namadi Sambo, as the new vice president of Africa's most populous nation Tuesday. President Goodluck Jonathan's choice of a deputy with little nationw

2010-05-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Congress is stepping up its probe of the Gulf oil spill. Top administration officials appeared before three Senate committees on Capitol Hill Tuesday.The Obama administration is clearly und

2010-05-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States and other major powers have agreed on a draft resolution for new U.N. sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. The announcement came

2010-05-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. military uses dogs to help troops on sentry duty and bomb-sniffing patrols. But dogs are also proving their worth off the field of battle by helping wounded soldiers recover. A new documentar

2010-05-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As rising petroleum prices continue to increase the costs of producing food, new research suggests farmers can use less fossil fuel without reducing their crop yields or profits.

Modern commercial

2010-05-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Experts fear antibiotic resistance puts humans in danger of becoming nearly defenseless against some bacterial infections.

The World Health Organization calls antibiotic resistance one of the thre

2010-05-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

There were signs of stress and relief on the faces of Cindy Hickey and Nora Shourd as they spoke about their planned trip to Iran on Tuesday.

Hickey: "We're very excited about this. This is the be

2010-05-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Liberian President, Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, says people should not have to die because they are poor. But, she notes poor people are dying all the time because they cannot get the treatment they need t

2010-05-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Basic need

Laura Stachel is crouching on the floor of her Berkeley kitchen, which is cluttered with spools of wire, small solar panels and assorted tools. She lifts the cover of a black carry-on su

2010-05-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Many of the so-called Red-Shirt protesters who have spent more than two months demonstrating against the government on the streets of Thailand's capital come from the country's rural poor and urban

2010-05-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the Midwest state of Iowa, not far from the Mississippi River, there's a cluster of seven villages where, six days a week, buses from several states unload tourists.

The settlements are what re

2010-05-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

While much attention is being paid to South Africa as the host of Africa’s first World Cup, the nation also made history 10 years ago when it hosted the 13th International AIDS Conference. It was th

2010-05-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Next week, Ethiopia holds its fourth national polls since the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) overthrew the 17-year-old Marxist government of Mengistu Hailemariam in May, 19

2010-05-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

St. John's College looks like a typical American college. But what goes on inside its classrooms is unlike just about every other college in the United States. At this small institution, about 60 k

2010-05-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Each year in late April or early May, more than 50,000 volunteers in Southern California help out at hundreds of non-profit organizations, from schools to community centers, at an annual event called

2010-05-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iranian opposition activist Akbar Ganji has won the Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty, named after the famous American economist, now deceased. Iranian opposition activist and journalist, Ak

2010-05-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In southern Louisiana, idled fishermen whose fertile fish and shrimping grounds are closed due to that massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are scrambling for another kind of work. British Petroleu

2010-05-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For more than 400 years, the Chatham Dockyard was at the heart of British Maritime history. When it closed in 1984, thousands were put out of work and the dockyard fell into disuse. But now it is emer

2010-05-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nancy Pelosi has won broad recognition as an effective Speaker of the House of Representatives. But she is also the target of opposition Republicans trying to win back control of the House in this No