2010-02-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The governor of Nigeria's Anambra state has been re-elected in a contest marred by incomplete voter lists. This vote was closely watched across Nigeria because it is one of a series of state and fede

2010-02-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The presidential vote in Ukraine opened amid uncertainty over the election laws. Distrust between candidates Yulia Tymoshenko and Viktor Yanukovych has led to doubts about the electoral process.

F

2010-02-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel says it is extending an olive branch to Syria in a bid to end an escalating war of words.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to ease tensions with Syria by calling for a resumption

2010-02-08 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama is urging his Democratic Party to continue fighting for its causes, despite a hostile political climate. Mr. Obama has recently adopted a more combative tone.

The hi

2010-02-07 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 if Iran is serious about accepting the international offer that could end the dispute over its nuclear program, it should do so soon, and through official chan

2010-02-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Aid workers in Haiti say hundreds of thousands of children are at risk in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake. The case of 33 children allegedly abducted by a group of Americans illustrates the

2010-02-07 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Major unions representing teachers, health workers, state college and university lecturers as well as office workers, held a rally of more than 2,000 in central Harare, saying they would not return to

2010-02-06 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 said Friday it is time to move toward new sanctions against Iran, given the lack of a clear response from Tehran to a proposal to ease concern about its nuclear

2010-02-06 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 said Friday the United States would oppose any new effort to exclude large numbers of Sunni Arab politicians from Iraq's March 7 parliamentary elections. Iraq

2010-02-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama says Friday's mixed news on U.S. unemployment is cause for hope but not celebration. Tthe president is asking lawmakers to support programs he says will help boost hiring.

2010-02-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nigeria's powerful regional governors want parliament to pass a resolution, as early as next week, endorsing Vice President Goodluck Jonathan as acting president. President Umaru Yar'Adua has been a

2010-02-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As international aid continues to flow into Haiti, residents of the Port-au-Prince slum of Cite Soleil say they are still waiting for tents and other essentials more than three weeks after a devastati

2010-02-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Indians call the eggplant the "king of vegetables". It's a popular ingredient in many native dishes.

But a hungry little caterpillar causes big problems for Indian eggplant farmers.

The cater

2010-02-06 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender has known both triumph and tragedy in her career. Since the last Olympics, she has won the World Cup title twice, but also lost the biggest influence in her life -

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The commander of coalition and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, says the deterioration of the security situation in the country, which he cited four months ago, has stopped. Th

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Security forces are on high alert in Nigeria's southeastern state, Anambra, before Saturday's governorship election. Previous elections in Nigeria have been marred by violence and fraud.

The sta

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Super Bowl is American football's biggest game of the year. One big star in Sunday's game is likely to be Indianapolis Colts' receiver Pierre Garçon, whose parents came to the United St

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Travel and tourism, vital elements in the Asia-Pacific region's economy, have been staging a recovery since late 2009, with growth strongest within the region. But, while travel experts are upbeat, t

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations Children's Fund is appealing for $1.2 billion to provide life saving emergency assistance to millions of children and women in dire need. UNICEF says earthquake-stricken Haiti is

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The recent arrest of six people in Indonesia over a nightclub show is raising concerns among minority groups and secularists about a new anti-pornography law.

In late 2008, Indonesia's parliament

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

From Cameroon’s hinterlands to the urban centers, vendors openly display smoked monkeys, gorillas, snakes, antelopes, crocodiles and more from the country’s receding forests. For several years, the

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In 2005, one in seven teenagers in the sparsely populated western state of Montana admitted to using the seductive and highly addictive street drug, methamphetamine. One in three said they saw no dang

2010-02-05 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

This week, millions of workers in Turkey joined in a one-day strike. The protest was in support of a small group of tobacco workers who, for nearly two months, have been protesting in the capital Ank

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Three American soldiers were among eight people killed when a roadside bomb struck their convoy in northwestern Pakistan. Taliban militants are said to have claimed responsibility for the attack.

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iraqi officials say that a motorcycle bomb blast has killed at least 20 Shi'ite pilgrims near the holy city of Karbala. The explosion came as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims made their wa