2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations is gearing up for a huge operation to help hundreds of thousands of victims of the powerful earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday. U.N. and international agencies are sending dis

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. embassy officials say Kenya's former police chief has been denied a visa. Human-rights activists have welcomed the news, alleging gross rights violations committed by the police force under Hus

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States will do all it can to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake. American rescue teams have been dispatched to the disaster area.

The president

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States has launched a major civilian and military response to the massive earthquake in Haiti, which has flattened buildings in much of the capital, and left a devastating toll of death and

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Untold numbers of Haitians are dead, trapped in rubble or missing after the country's worst earthquake in two centuries. The international community is rushing to provide emergency aid for the impove

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The alleged leader of an al-Qaida cell was killed in the Yemeni province of Shabwa, after security forces raided the house he was hiding in, according to the provincial governor. Yemen recently began

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Guinea's injured military leader is in Burkina Faso where he is expected to meet with members of his ruling council, Wednesday. The military chief was shot in December by the former head of the presi

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United Nations and international aid agencies are ramping up their assistance to earthquake victims in Haiti. But, they report the extent of devastation caused by the powerful quake is hampering

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ukrainians go to the polls Sunday January 17 to elect a new president. In this report from Washington, we look at the legacy of current president, Viktor Yushchenko.

Public-opinion surveys indica

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.S. government as well as American officials and aid workers are trying to help Haiti following the devastating earthquake that hit near the capital Port-au-Prince late Tuesday.

Secretary o

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A funny thing is happening in the world of language instruction. Only it's not funny at all for one language in particular.

Because of the growing importance of global commerce and contact, forei

2010-01-14 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Pope Benedict XVI focused his annual address to ambassadors accredited to the Vatican on the environment and the protection of creation. He denounced the failure of world leaders to agree to a new cli

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

An Iranian nuclear physicist has been killed by a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorcycle. Iranian prosecutor general Abbas Jaafar Dolatabadi is pointing the finger at Western intelligence agen

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The secretary's speech at the U.S.-sponsored East-West Center in Honolulu comes as the Obama administration nears the end of a first year in office that Clinton says gave substance to its pledges to

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The U.N. refugee agency reports more than 200,000 people have been displaced by the conflict in northern Yemen. It says the growing number of displaced is straining the ability of aid agencies to she

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The 2010 North American International Auto Show does not officially open until January 16, but the media got a sneak peek at the latest offerings from U.S. and international automakers this week. Mem

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Organizers of football's World Cup in South Africa are dismissing media reports that Friday's attack on the Togolese football team in Angola could affect the sport's biggest tournament when it kick

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Mahinda Rajapaksa said Tuesday that the government will spend billions of dollars this year to rebuild infrastructure in the war-shattered north and east.

He also is offering to consider

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The British government has banned an Islamic group under the country's counter-terrorism laws. Islam4UK had planned to stage a march through the British town Wootton Bassett to honor Muslims killed

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Genetically modified foods have been controversial ever since they were introduced. But a new variety of GM soybean nearing commercialization promises to deliver health benefits that could change how

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The auto fleet in the United States is shrinking. For the first time since World War II, more used cars were scrapped than new cars sold in 2009. The fleet decreased from an all-time high in 2008 of

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The men's Olympic ice hockey tournament at the 2010 Games in Vancouver is expected to be one of the most competitive ever. The 12-day tournament will bring together the 12 best national teams in the

2010-01-13 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ban Ki-moon outlined seven strategic priorities to member states. Chief among them is working towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme poverty and disease by their tar

2010-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The arrests came amid an intense hunt for the estimated one dozen gunmen who attacked Togo's national football team Friday as it traveled by bus from its training camp in Congo Republic to the Angola

2010-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess said there have been notable successes against the Taliban and al-Qaida by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistani troops on the other side of the border in South Wa