2010-02-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Head-Royce School, a small private academy for students in kindergarten through the 12th grade in Oakland, California, prides itself on strong academic performance as well as leadership skills.As part

2010-02-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A small antique etching discovered by the president of Catholic University in Washington, D.C., has created quite a cultural stir. "I don't think, in my 12 years as president, that anything has attr

2010-02-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Over a decree on state radio late Monday, Interim President Sekouba Konate said Rabiatou Serah Diallo would be president of the Transitional Council, which will manage the country's move to civilian

2010-02-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama has invited opposition Republicans in Congress to take part in a bipartisan health-care summit later this month in an effort to revive stalled health-care reform legislatio

2010-02-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A Yemen-based al-Qaida group is calling for regional coordination with rebels in Somalia. The governments of both countries are facing powerful insurgencies from Islamist forces.

The deputy comman

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he hopes strong international sanctions on Iran will forestall the need for a military strike designed to end the country's chances of developing a nuclear we

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iran says it has informed the U.N. nuclear agency it plans to further enrich its uranium in defiance of international demands that it stop. Iran's processing program would likely need reconfiguring

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For families fleeing the war in northern Yemen, options are shrinking. The capital Sanaa hosts more than 10,000 displaced people, and most live packed into dirty stone rooms without enough food, wate

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In recent years, the rise of the militant al-Shabab group in Somalia, an al-Qaida ally fighting to implement its ultraconservative version of Islam in the Horn of Africa, has been accompanied by suici

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Remaining residents within Somalia's battle-torn capital are fleeing as rebel and government forces prepare for new clashes. The Western-backed Mogadishu government has announced its intention of la

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Controversy over the voter list in Ivory Coast is threatening to once again push back long-delayed presidential elections. Election-related protests erupted around Ivory Coast this past week.Ivorian

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The former Army commander who recently lost Sri Lanka's presidential election has been arrested by the country's military.

Supporters of former General Sarath Fonseka say he was forcibly taken aw

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new report from a human-rights watchdog says officials in Bahrain have been using torture since 2007 when interrogating security suspects. Human Rights Watch says their report is based on interview

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A largely forgotten translator is getting new life in the aftermath of the devastating January 12 earthquake in Haiti which left between as many as 200,000 people dead and 1.5 million homeless.Linguis

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida before dawn, bound for the International Space Station

Endeavour's last schedule

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sulkhan treads carefully past shacks where goats are busy digesting the next batch of eco-friendly fertilizer. A group of around 40 young men is gathered down the path, at the entrance of a greenhouse

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Six years ago, a prominent human-rights lawyer disappeared in Thailand. Despite government promises to resolve the case, nothing is known about his whereabouts. Human-rights groups say the case is a

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Just four years after Hurricane Katrina decimated the city of New Orleans, the Saints are the champions of the National Football League. The New Orleans Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 31-17,

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

MUSIC: "Our World" theme

Straight ahead on Our World: The U.S. space agency pulls the plug on its plan to return humans to the moon; pictures from Pluto reveal dramatic changes in the dwarf planet;

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Two widely respected Zimbabaweans have been appointed to head up the new human-rights commission and the electoral commission. The appointment of the two men has taken many months and hard negotiation

2010-02-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At least 17 Indian Army personnel were killed when an avalanche hit a training sub camp in the mountains of Kashmir. About a dozen injured soldiers have been rescued.

The avalanche swept over the

2010-02-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The White House is lashing out at Congressional critics of the administration's policy on terrorism. President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan says these critics are playi

2010-02-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. economy is healing from a deep and prolonged recession, according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Geithner struck an upbeat note on America's economic prospects, but also stress

2010-02-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Iraq, a political dispute continued to simmer Sunday, as parliament put off debate on an appeals court verdict allowing hundreds of banned candidates with alleged ties to Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath

2010-02-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The family of an American activist has welcomed him home in Los Angeles, 43 days after he was detained in North Korea.Broadcast images from Beijing showed Robert Park, 28, transiting through the city