2010-03-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Parched areas of New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, have received their best rains in more than a decade, fueling hope the continent's worst drought in memory may finally be easing.

2010-03-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new survey carried out by the MAC AIDS Fund shows three-quarters of women in Britain are unaware of their HIV status, and the organization says it's a trend found around the world.Women in Britain

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on the eve of a visit to Chile to show solidarity with that country amid its earthquake disaster, says she is bringing in communications gear requested by the

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The West Bank city of Hebron has been the scene of clashes between rock-throwing Palestinian demonstrators and police almost daily in the past two weeks. The violence stems from Israel's decision to

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Iranian government has released a handful of detainees, including several prominent journalists, according to opposition Web sites. At the same time, the official Fars News agency reports two ref

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A law that forces white-owned companies to hand over 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans has come into force. Most of the foreign companies affected are South African owned, which are sup

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Church leaders, human rights activists, and healthcare workers in Uganda have delivered a petition, demanding the withdrawal of an anti-homosexuality bill in parliament. Critics say the bill's passa

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ukraine's new president, Viktor Yanukovich, says he is committed to establishing closer ties with the European Union.

Yanukovich, who is considered far more pro-Russian than his predecessor, chos

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Call it the "Olympics of the Mind".

Earlier this month, the world's brainiest people were in Harbin, China, for the 34th annual Battle of the Brains, the oldest, most prestigious computer program

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

March 1 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederic Chopin, the 19th century Polish-born composer whom many consider to be one of the greatest musical geniuses of ll time.Month-long celebrations

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Canadians are known for a having a good sense of humor - and that was on full display during the closing ceremony. Because one of the special hydraulically-powered arms of the Olympic cauldron malfun

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

EU Commissioner Oliver Rehn is in Athens to discuss Greek proposals to straighten out its government finances.

The European Union has urged Greece to implement greater austerity measures immediat

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

America is full of vacation lodges . . . on wheels!

They are known as motor homes - literally kitchens, living rooms, and beds on the move across America. There are more than 1.5 million of these s

2010-03-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Vancouver Olympics ended on Sunday and it could not have been a much better finish for host country Canada, which won the final gold medal.

This was an Olympics that began on a sad note after

2010-03-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The final day of speedskating at the Richmond Olympic Oval proved golden for host team Canada's men and for reigning Olympic champion Germany's women's team. The men beat the United States while G

2010-03-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States has finally ended more than half a century of frustration in the Olympic four-man bobsled, capturing the gold medal Saturday at the Vancouver Winter Games. VOA Sports Editor Parke B

2010-03-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The time is 1954. The place is a fog-shrouded, desolate island off the coast of Massachusetts. There, in buildings dating back more than a century, psychiatrists attempt to treat …and possibly heal …

2010-02-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

American Nordic Combined skier Billy DeMong has been chosen to carry the flag in the closing ceremonies for the U.S. Team Sunday at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The honor is just one of the amaz

2010-02-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This is the 10th time Lisa Delpy Neirotti has accompanied college students to an Olympic Games. Neirotti is a professor for Sports Management at the George Washington University, and 28 students from

2010-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As Greece embarks on tough economic reforms it is facing the prospect of deep social unrest, with tens of thousands of workers taking to the streets this week. The Greek debt crisis is spilling over t

2010-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Italian environmental officials are warning of an ecological disaster in Italy caused by an oil spill flowing down the Po River. They say water and bird species are at risk, as well as a fertile agric

2010-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

United States parallel giant slalom snowboarder Chris Klug has more than just a desire to win an Olympic medal in Vancouver. He also is spreading the word about the need for organ donors, as he himsel

2010-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In 1881, a 25-year-old former slave from Virginia used a $2,000 gift to open a one-room teacher-training school in one of the poorest rural counties in the southern state of Alabama. This man and his

2010-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For many decades, schools in the American south were segregated based on race. Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that segregation was unconstitutional, many states fought the decision, and

2010-02-27 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Recently, a series of attacks on Christian churches and a Sikh temple in Malaysia focused attention on growing ethnic tension in the country. The Malaysian government, which has been promoting a "1Mal