2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a $3.8 trillion budget request to Congress for the fiscal year that begins on October first. It is the first step in what is expected to be a long, contentious bu

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Police in Zimbabwe are warning they do not have enough money to feed people in holding cells around the country. The whole justice system in Zimbabwe is threatened by lack of adequate resources.

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2010-02-02 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 is in Cyprus to encourage the leaders of the two communities to reach a solution to end the 36-year old division of the island. The chief of the world body says a so

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

International pressure is mounting for Ivory Coast to hold its long-delayed presidential elections, as controversy over the voter list threatens to once again push back the poll.

In January, Presid

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The new chairman of Japan Airlines (JAL) says management will decide soon which U.S. airline the company will partner with. Kazuo Inamori takes over two weeks after JAL, once one of Japan's premier c

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting Monday using an unusual venue - the YouTube Internet Web site. He took questions submitted via e-mail and video during and following his State of

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A human-rights group is calling for African leaders, who are in Ethiopia for an annual African Union summit, to focus on the importance of human rights in some of Africa's most long-standing conflict

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iran is starting 11 days of celebrations to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. Around the country, Iranians paused at 9:33 in the morning to remember the day that the revolution's

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Every American neighborhood seems to have one mom to whom all the children gravitate. In a community in the small town of Lebanon, Tennesee, that person is Tammy Renault. But she never expected to be

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Greek philosopher Plato said necessity is the mother of invention. And in tough economic times, innovation is essential for job seekers. With 10 percent of the U.S. workforce unemployed, some en

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The 52nd annual Grammy Awards ceremony took place Sunday, 31 January, in Los Angeles. No longer single but very much in control, Beyonce emerged the big winner at Sunday night's 52nd annual Grammy Aw

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A United Nations Trade Group is promoting so-called "EcoChic Fashion" as one way of stemming the rapid loss of the world's biodiversity. The United Nations has designated 2010 as the International Y

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When boys and girls reach puberty, their bodies go through many physical changes. But for girls in Africa, the onset of menstruation can bring with it discrimination, unwanted sexual advances and the

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In many parts of Yemen, it is customary to marry girls as young as 10-years old. About a year ago, a bill was introduced to the country's parliament that would set the minimum age for marriage at 17

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thousands of people heeded a call by the Anglican Church to attend an outdoor service in Harare to protest their not being allowed to worship in their churches by a former bishop and his followers. I

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The soybean has fed generations of Asians, fattened countless head of livestock and is now poised to take off as the next generation of jet fuel. Scientists have decoded the legume's genetic sequence

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An African Union summit has given the organization more authority to act against unconstitutional changes of power. Coups and conflicts are dominating the summit agenda.

African leaders broadened

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Indonesia's central bank has recently embraced new regulations for Islamic banking, which it sees as key to building on last year's strong economic growth. In a country that is home to more than 200

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Kenyan government has dismissed a report by a Swiss research institute that says it is secretly helping Southern Sudan stockpile weapons in violation of a U.S.-backed peace agreement. The Small A

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Human-rights activists say 2009 represented a breakthrough in relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian government. But they say the closer ties appear to place other faiths at a

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. and Iraqi officials inaugurated a portion of the country's new border security fence along the Iraqi-Syrian border, as efforts are stepped up to improve security before March parliamentary elect

2010-02-02 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"The Sax Pack", three of today's busiest saxophonists, join forces on their new CD, "The Pack Is Back."

Following their long-awaited debut album in 2008, the illustrious "smooth" jazz trio has c

2010-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has stepped down as chairman of the 53-nation African Union, but not without firing a few verbal broadsides at the organization. Mr. Gadhafi chastised his fellow heads o

2010-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Obama administration says no decision has been reached on where to hold trials for accused terrorists, including the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United Stat

2010-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A patient's view of the devastation in Haiti and his appreciation for the U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort are attracting the attention of those on board.

The black-and-white pencil drawing, with i