2010-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

After their bus was ambushed and three members of their entourage killed, Togo's national football team will not return to Angola to participate in the Africa Cup of Nations. The West African country

2010-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Tens of thousands of people have fled the conflict in northern Yemen over the past five months. And, they continue to leave in large numbers.

A spokeswoman for the International Committee of the

2010-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Cement is a major component of concrete, the world's most widely used man-made material, an integral part of roads, bridges and buildings. But making cement requires heating limestone and other mater

2010-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sheikh Issa, who is the half brother of UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan, has been cleared of all charges of torture, but the judge presiding over the case has failed to give an explan

2010-01-12 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Scientists on Monday reported the first new worlds discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, which was launched in March last year specifically to find planets orbiting distant stars.

Kepler was d

2010-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The African Cup of Nations football tournament kicks off in Luanda Sunday with the opening match between Angola and Mali. The tournament is going ahead despite an attack on the team from Togo that ki

2010-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Months after Iranian opposition leaders denounced acts of torture and rape at the infamous Kahrizak detention center, the country's parliament has released a report detailing incidents of mistreatmen

2010-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The stalled Middle East peace process is continuing to raise tensions between Israel and the United States. Israel says Washington is blaming the wrong party.

Israel reacted angrily to a threat b

2010-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A White House economic advisor says there is an "overwhelming" need to do more to spur U.S. job creation and solidify a fragile economic recovery. The comment follows a disappointing monthly unemploy

2010-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Voters in Croatia on Sunday will choose a new president who is expected to lead the Balkan nation into the European Union. The race is between a leftist intellectual who has pledged to fight high-leve

2010-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A wave of cold and snowy weather continues to grip Europe, grounding airplanes, trains and cars and causing dozens of deaths.

Britons shivering through one of the coldest winters to hit the Unit

2010-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The International Organization for Migration says an increasing number of qualified, educated young Ghanaians are migrating to foreign countries. It says this so-called "brain drain" could affect the

2010-01-11 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A federal court in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, will hold hearings this week on three lawsuits seeking to compel ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua to transfer powers to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

2010-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A Pakistani private television station and international networks have apparently aired Saturday the final video message of the man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven U.S intelligence

2010-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A group of top Iraqi Sunni-Arab political leaders are protesting the preliminary decision by an Iraqi parliamentary committee to exclude Sunni leader Salah al-Mutlak from participating in March parlia

2010-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Humanitarian groups and world renowned musicians are teaming up in a year long campaign for peace in Sudan. The global effort is meant to draw attention to continued human rights violations in Sudan

2010-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On December 16, Mexican marines stormed a luxury apartment in Cuernavaca, near Mexico City, and killed Arturo Beltran Leyva, head of one of the country's largest drug trafficking organizations. A cou

2010-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

At his annual briefing to journalists Friday, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa says his country is enjoying enhanced diplomatic status following its successful presidential election last y

2010-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Press freedom advocates are awaiting a reply from the president of Puntland, Abdirahman Mohamud Farole, to accusations of harassment, censorship, detentions, and direct attacks by police officers. Th

2010-01-10 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. biathlete Tim Burke made sports history last month when he became the first American to take the lead in the Biathlon World Cup standings. Burke is due to compete in his second Olympic Winter Ga

2010-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The head of the Defense Intelligence Agency admits there have been some recent lapses among U.S. intelligence organizations that need attention. In an exclusive VOA interview, Lieutenant General Ronal

2010-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The African Union is urging the United Nations to boost its support for Somalia's fragile government in view of the rise of terrorist activity in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula. AU Comm

2010-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

It was not the first time that Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi has come under attack by government supporters, but the use of gunfire to blow out the windows of his armored limousine constitu

2010-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

"My name is Salmon, like the fish … first name, Susie. I was 14 years old when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

Susie Salmon seems like a typical teenager on the brink of a life filled with so

2010-01-09 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Elvis Presley would have been 75 on Friday. Years after his death, the singer's popularity only seems to grow stronger.

Friday, fans boarded a special train in Sydney heading to the Elvis festival