2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iran says it sent a research rocket carrying live animals into space Wednesday, prompting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hail the country's scientific achievements as "miraculous."

Iran's state

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

America's top intelligence officials have delivered a sobering assessment to Congress, saying that the al-Qaida terrorist network remains a persistent threat to the United States because its follower

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A senior U.S. official says American and Russian negotiators meeting in Geneva are closing in on a deal for a key nuclear disarmament treaty, and the United States Senate would likely ratify it.

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has asked former U.S. President Bill Clinton to head up coordination of international aid efforts on Haiti. Mr. Ban said the massive effort will need "extraordinary

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Jacmel, an area south of Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, crops of sugar cane, corn and beans are maturing. They will be ready to harvest in a few weeks. But the earthquake has damaged the ir

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Residents of makeshift tent cities throughout Port-au-Prince say that conditions have improved since the earthquake three weeks ago, but shortages of food and relief supplies still make life difficult

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Amnesty International says police in Papua New Guinea have burnt down homes and illegally evicted people living near a mine owned by the world's largest gold mining company. In a new report Amnesty I

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. officials say they are encouraged that Yemen can be a full partner in the fight against al-Qaida, despite uneven counter-terrorism cooperation in the past. The top State Department official for

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Very shortly, the decennial - meaning every-10th-year - census of the nation's population, which is mandated by the U.S. Constitution, will get underway.

And there's a lot more to it than just tr

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It's late at night at Mehanata, a small Bohemian music and dance club on New York's Lower East Side, where many of the city's ethnic and alternative musicians are gathered to raise money for Haitia

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After security, U.S. officials say the top priority in Afghanistan is rebuilding the country's agriculture sector.The influx of farming aid and experts is expected to be a significant part of the Oba

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In the weeks following the massive earthquake in Haiti, thousands of aid workers from around the world rushed to provide food, medical and logistical assistance. The United Nations estimates the disa

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Two-year-old Lilianna Robinson is pursuing one of her favorite pastimes, playing on the computer while sitting on her mother's lap. They've logged onto a site called KneeBouncers.com. "Whenever my w

2010-02-04 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Amnesty International says police in Papua New Guinea have burnt down homes and illegally evicted people living near a mine owned by the world's largest gold mining company. In a new report Amnesty I

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations reports significant progress has been made in providing assistance to hundreds of thousands of quake victims in Haiti. A senior U.N. official says the relief operation is being sca

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama has again gone on the road to try to persuade Americans to support his economic agenda. The president is campaigning for his plan to encourage hiring.

President Obam

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In Malaysia, the politically charged trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on charges of sodomy has begun. The former deputy prime minister maintains the case is a conspiracy to end his political

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

January 29 was supposed to have been a day of celebration. In the sprawling presidential compound known as Villa Somalia, preparations had been made to mark the one-year anniversary of the new transit

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The newly-elected African Union Chairman, Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has pledged to make political stability a priority on a continent troubled by coups and conflicts. Mr. Mutharika set an

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations says the Lord's Resistance Army is continuing to attack civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite a recent international offensive against the Ugandan rebel group. Th

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

People near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince are taking tentative steps to get their lives back to normal, after the devastating earthquake on January 12. In Mirebalais new students have arrived

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

France's top universities have recently agreed to admit more poor students, after strong pressure from the government to do so. The debate on offering less privileged youngsters an equal chance at s

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As communities across the United States face declining revenues and shrinking budgets, local school officials are laying off teachers, increasing classroom sizes and eliminating classes in a wide vari

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When the world's biggest polluters gathered this past December at the U.N. Climate Summit in Copenhagen, they managed to forge a non-binding agreement that could help put the brakes on global warming

2010-02-03 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new study shows that former Chadian President Hissene Habre knew about hundreds of deaths in prisons operated by his political police.

Mr. Habre has been under house arrest in Senegal since 200