2010-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

China reported blistering growth for the last three months of 2009, raising expectations of interest rate increases and other measures to head off inflation.

China has declared that it is recoverin

2010-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Iranian opposition websites are reporting Iran has threatened to shut down 15 more newspapers and periodicals. The warning further intensifies pressure on the already limited number of papers allowed

2010-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It was sunny in New York on Wednesday where business remained brisk in Brooklyn's Flatbush district, home to many of the city's hundreds of thousands of Haitian-Americans. However, for most residen

2010-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Anglo-Australian mining giant, BHP Billiton, has given its most optimistic assessment of the commodities markets since the global economic downturn. The company says surging demand from China for

2010-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The wildlife conservation group WWF says wild tiger populations have dropped sharply across Asia and may soon be wiped out. The group is urging governments in the region to better enforce laws against

2010-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Minority Republicans in Congress are claiming a major victory in Tuesday's Massachusetts special election, which put Republican Scott Brown in the U.S. Senate seat once occupied by the late Democrati

2010-01-22 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The January 12 Haiti earthquake and its aftershocks killed or injured hundreds of thousands of people in the Caribbean island nation, mostly as a result of what engineers call structural failure — bu

2010-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

quake-stricken Haiti is now on the way. Speaking in parliament, the British leader said an unloading vessel from the Royal Navy would be on its way soon and ways of helping the civilian government re-

2010-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Yemen says its fighter jets struck the home of a prominent al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula terrorist, the day after new international sanctions were announced against the group.

Yemeni governme

2010-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Researchers in Australia say a group of proteins produced in the human immune system - when infected with malaria - could help lead to the creation of a malaria vaccine. Scientists at Melbourne's Wal

2010-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Congress is moving to help encourage Americans to increase monetary donations to the earthquake relief effort in Haiti. The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved bipartisan legislat

2010-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Residents of Nigeria's city of Jos say attacks are continuing for a fourth day in parts of the state previously unaffected despite the imposition of a 24-hour curfew and the deployment of soldiers.

2010-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

More than 2,500 business, government and civil society leaders from more than 90 countries are expected to attend this year's World Economic Forum in the small Swiss alpine resort of Davos. Organize

2010-01-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Governments in France and Spain have recently announced drops in the numbers of illegal immigrants coming to their shores, partly due to tougher policies, but also because of the global economic downt

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Thousands of United States Marines and other troops are moving into Haiti to assist with relief efforts one week after the country's deadly earthquake. Also Tuesday, the United Nations authorized sen

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A 2,000-strong unit of U.S. Marines began moving ashore west of Port-au-Prince at dawn on Tuesday to help deliver relief to victims of last week's earthquake. Some U.S. troops landed by helicopter a

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. Security Council has authorized a request from the U.N. chief for as many as 3,500 new peacekeepers and police to be sent to Haiti. This will boost the U.N. force in Haiti to more than 12,00

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is expected to arrive in Haiti on Wednesday and could begin receiving critically injured earthquake victims by helicopter during the next several hours. Meanw

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort, currently en route to Haiti, has treated patients in the region before. Medical personnel who have personal connections to Haiti are preparing fellow shipmates fo

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

United Nations aid agencies report they are making progress in getting crucial relief to hundreds of thousands of survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake. The agencies say they are increasing ef

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Fifty-three orphans evacuated from earthquake-hit Haiti have arrived in the United States for medical care and adoption.

Volunteers carried many of the young children in their arms as they disembar

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Japan Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection after struggling for years. The largest airline in Asia will continue operating flights but the Japanese government is acting quickly to pull JAL out

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Since the U.S. government ordered lead removed from paint and gasoline 30 years ago, the incidence of childhood lead poisoning has dropped to about one percent in most communities across the country.

2010-01-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A new survey shows that African-Americans' assessment of progress and race relations in America has improved more dramatically than at any time in the last quarter century. And, President Barack Oba

2010-01-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. and U.N. officials say the flow of aid to destitute Haitian earthquake survivors is improving, despite continued looting, gang activity, and scuffles on the streets of Port-au-Prince.

U.S. he