2010-02-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The release of the original "We Are The World" on March 7, 1985 was an instant success. It became the fastest-selling U.S. pop single of all-time, and by the end of the decade, was the best-selling s

2010-02-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Civil liberties advocates are joining Arab and Muslim American groups in expressing concern over the government's recent decision to single out travelers from more than a dozen mostly Middle Eastern

2010-02-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An investment group out of Australia has unveiled a $600 million plan to create a massive farm project in Cambodia. However, human rights workers are concerned that this deal, and others like it, will

2010-02-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Hollywood is gearing up for the Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars. The event March 7 is the highlight of the year for the American movie industry. Nominees who attended a recent luncheon say

2010-02-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is calling for major police reforms, including a 50 percent reduction in the number of officials working at Interior Ministry headquarters and sub-units. The Kremlin

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Russia is delaying delivery of its S-300 air-defense system to Iran and is also calling for Tehran to adhere to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) guidelines for enrichment of nuclear fuel. Th

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The aid promised by French President Nicolas Sarkozy comes in addition to France's decision to cancel the $77 million debt Haiti owes to France. The $400 million in French aid will include reconstruc

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In downtown Vancouver, one of the biggest attractions is not an Olympic venue - it's a department store. The Hudson's Bay company store is the only official Vancouver Olympic store, and fans are wi

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The DNA testing of several prominent Egyptian mummies has revealed the identities of the mother and the father of famous boy king Tutankhamun. Egypt's head of antiquities, Zahi Hawass, says tests al

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The commander of U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti said Wednesday that the operation is becoming more civilian and more Haitian, but that there is still an important role for his troops in the ear

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel's foreign minister says there is no reason to believe that Israel's spy agency, Mossad, was behind the killing of a top commander of the militant group Hamas in Dubai last month. The foreign

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new collection of photographs inspired by one of the most popular photo exhibitions ever mounted is now on display at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication. "Th

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An unsightly chain-link fence makes it hard for visitors to Vancouver to get good photographs of the Winter Olympics cauldron.

Most Olympic cauldrons are high in the air, but the giant steel and

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Malaysia the sodomy trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is to resume after the Court of Appeals rejected a motion to strike down the charges. No matter the outcome, the salacious nature of the

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The ability to communicate using complex spoken language is a uniquely human characteristic, but surprisingly little is known about how we developed language when our close primate relatives, like chi

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

India is assuring international sports competitors headed to the country that they will be safe, despite a purported warning by a militant commander for athletes not to visit the South Asian nation.

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga's party has declared a cabinet boycott within the nation's coalition government, but the prime minister said Wednesday that he is confident the power dispute will

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This past week, additional members of Congress from both major U.S. political parties announced that they will not seek re-election. The latest to announce include a conservative Republican and stron

2010-02-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Guinea's interim prime minister announced his confidence in the transitional government that will oversee the country's road to new elections. Within the government are a few names that have been im

2010-02-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thousands of fans who thought they would get to witness a Winter Olympics event got bad news because of the bad weather at Cypress Mountain, one of the Olympic venues for the Vancouver Games.

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2010-02-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sustained armed clashes between rebel groups and Sudanese forces have re-emerged in Sudan's western region of Darfur as another round of peace talks appear to be going nowhere. The international pea

2010-02-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Horn of Africa region is among the most dangerous places in the world to work as a journalist, according to a global watchdog group. The Committee to Protect Journalists says numerous journalists

2010-02-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The teams of athletes gathered in Vancouver for the Winter Olympics have trained and honed their skills to win medals. But another team - from the Royal Canadian Mint - has used all of its skills and

2010-02-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

North Korea is celebrating one of the country's most important holidays.

Synchronized swimming displays, candy for children, and thousands of flower bouquets were reported to mark what North Korea

2010-02-17 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Chimpanzees are our closest animal relative. So close, in fact, that 98 percent of a chimpanzee's DNA is identical to that of humans.

The highly intelligent primates share many of our physical and