2010-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The director of governance at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa says he expects a change in approach following Malawi President Bingu Wa Mutharika’s election as chairman of the Africa

2010-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A French parliamentary commission submitted a report Tuesday on wearing a type of Islamic veil that covers the face. The commission's findings cap months of debate over whether to ban the face veil

2010-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

American Zach Lund, 30, has for years been one of the best luge and skeleton racers in the world. But in 2006 his talent and chance for Olympic gold were suddenly overshadowed by his thinning hair.

2010-02-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Three world champions are among the five athletes on the U.S. Nordic Combined team for the Vancouver Olympics. Todd Lodwick, Bill Demong and Johnny Spillane hope to bring the United States its first

2010-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Army has set up a data collection center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to assess the needs of residents in the aftermath of the massive earthquake January 12. Thousands who come daily are in desp

2010-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Health Organization says the risk of epidemics breaking out in earthquake-devastated Haiti is increasing as the rainy season approaches. WHO says it already is receiving reports of a growin

2010-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Nigeria's main militant group in the Niger Delta says it will resume attacks on oil facilities, three months after calling a cease-fire. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) wa

2010-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Former Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney have reunited. Well, at least for a couple of songs on Ringo's latest album, "Y Not."

It seems like old times when you hear Ringo Starr playing dru

2010-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

East Timor is one of the few remaining countries where leprosy is endemic, and one of only two in Asia where it has yet to be eliminated. The government has declared war on leprosy, and vows to elimin

2010-01-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

2006 Turin Olympics ice dancing silver medalists Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto will have to deal with numerous changes as they head to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games. The 2010 U.S. Championship s

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

GOLLUST: Madam Secretary, I have a question left over from the London conference on Afghanistan. Before your news conference, several of us reporters talked to the women's rights advocates from Afgha

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

UNICEF is working with aid groups in Haiti to try to locate the scores of children who lost their parents in the earthquake. An informal grassroots networks in the tent cities of Port-au-Prince are a

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Workers at a Haitian hospital say health care needs have moved beyond emergency medical aid for earthquake victims to long-term help for the injured, including amputees, and psychological counseling.

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Palestinian militant group Hamas claim Israeli intelligence agents have targeted a top Palestinian militant in the United Arab Emirates.

Hamas has accused Israel of assassinating one of its se

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama has urged Republicans in the House of Representatives to work with him on major national priorities, saying cooperation is essential to the country's economic recovery. Presid

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Haiti earthquake created a huge and urgent need for water, food, medicine and other services - a need that required an international governmental and private response. But the only organization w

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appears before an inquiry into the war in Iraq, dozens of demonstrators gathered outside in a public display of anger over Britain's role in the war. Chant

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

India's Central bank has made its first significant move to reverse stimulus measures taken in the wake of the global financial crisis by asking banks to set aside larger cash reserves. The step is a

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Navy trauma surgeon, Commander Zsolt Stockinger, assesses patients as they arrive at a combination triage facility-helicopter landing zone the U.S. military established on the shore of Port-au-Pr

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

One of the world's biggest water desalination plants is about to open in Australia's biggest and thirstiest city, Sydney. The plant is part of a program aimed at providing water as the continent bat

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The devastation of the Haiti earthquake has prompted people around the world to offer help to the victims of the disaster. Relief funds have been raised through time-honored ways, like a celebrity te

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Friday pledged $10 billion dollars over the next 10 years to research and develop new vaccines. The announcement came at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switz

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama’s sagging approval ratings aren’t only a domestic phenomenon. The international community is expressing similar emotions about a president who initially offered high hop

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Jeret "Speedy" Peterson is well acquainted with trouble - from losing his sister to a drunk driver, to sexual abuse, to witnessing his roommate commit suicide. Then Peterson was sent home from the 20

2010-01-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. military commanders overseeing food and water distribution in Haiti acknowledged Thursday that the effort remains uneven and that there are places they still have not been able to reach. Food pri