2010-01-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

For the majority of those traveling to South Africa from Harare the journey starts at the Road Port, the terminal for cross-border buses.

The Road Port is always packed with buses and people, but

2010-01-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Singer-songwriter Eric Bibb delves deep into the Delta blues on his new release, Booker's Guitar. The album was inspired by a vintage guitar once owned by Mississippi bluesman Booker White.

Eric

2010-01-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A top United Nations official says much of the Asia-Pacific region is nearing full treatment coverage for patients with HIV. But Prasada Rao warns access to remote regions in China and India, and disr

2010-01-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, says important progress has been made in tackling some of Africa's worst health problems over the past decade. But, she says thi

2010-01-01 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Americans love their chocolate, especially during the holiday season.

For Gerri Ratliff, 48, buying chocolate during the holiday season is a family tradition. She says her family doesn't normal

2009-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A British hostage has been released alive and well in Iraq after more than two years in captivity. The news was announced by Britain's foreign minister in London.

Thirty-six year old Peter Moore

2009-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Jimmy Wayne is climbing the Country chart with his cover version of a classic pop song that helped him get his first record deal.

Keith Urban gave Jimmy Wayne the song, "Things I Believe," for hi

2009-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

In California, preparations are underway for the annual Rose Parade, a colorful New Year's Day tradition. Volunteers are working around the clock to decorate parade floats with flowers, plants and o

2009-12-31 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

France's center-right government has launched a national debate about what it means to be French. The discussion on national identity is being described as a way for citizens to take stock of who the

2009-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a "systemic failure" in security allowed the attempted Christmas Day attack on a Northwest Airlines flight. Mr. Obama said information that could have pre

2009-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

When many Americans think of the holidays, they envision snowflakes, a homemade meal and time spent with family. However, that picture is far from reality for the thousands of U.S. servicemen and wom

2009-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The director-general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, predicts the H1N1 swine flu virus is likely to continue circulating around the world for another year. She warns nations must rem

2009-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ghana is one of the world's top producers of gold, now mining more than five times as much as gold as it did in the early 1990's. With gold prices at record highs, more companies are rushing to Gha

2009-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

A Somali politician says a major conference has been held in a town near Somalia's border with Kenya and Ethiopia to develop a plan to establish a regional government in southern Somalia. Al-Shabab

2009-12-30 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Calm is returning to the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi, a day after members of an Islamic sect clashed with security forces. Police said 38 people were killed, including the leader of the sect.

2009-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Iranian government is cracking the whip on opposition supporters after two days of intense and sometimes bloody demonstrations in Tehran and elsewhere. Scores of opposition activists and politica

2009-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak says Iran is moving quickly toward the "point of no return." Speaking behind closed doors to the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Barak said

2009-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel plans to build nearly 700 new apartments in disputed East Jerusalem, defying demands by the United States and the Palestinian Authority for a freeze on settlement construction. While Israel ha

2009-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Nigerian government has enhanced security checks at its airports after a young Nigerian man tried to blow up a U.S. airliner.Nigerian Information Minister Dora Akunyili told reporters a range of m

2009-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The British government has confirmed that the young Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight on Christmas Day was refused entry into Britain earlier this year and his name was

2009-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Sierra Leone's Supreme Court recently threw out a case aiming to repeal the country's criminal libel law, under which journalists and others can be jailed for libelous statements.

Sierra Leonean

2009-12-29 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Official results show Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic has won the most votes in the first round of Croatia's presidential election, but not enough for a first round victory. Josipovic will face the co

2009-12-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The White House says the American people are on the "verge" of health-care reform. One big hurdle remains before the needed legislation can be signed into law.

This may be the most difficult part

2009-12-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel is praising a deadly military operation in the West Bank that angered the Palestinian Authority. The incident occurred amid intensifying efforts for a prisoner exchange.Israeli Prime Minister

2009-12-28 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

As airport security is strengthened in Europe, a search of the last known London residence of the man who has been charged with trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic jetliner has been launched. As the cr