2009-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Blizzard conditions have descended upon a wide section of Europe. While snow has brought smiles to the faces of children who have dusted off their sleds for the new season, for others, this cold snap

2009-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The World Health Organization (WHO) says Southern Sudan is all but forgotten since it signed a peace agreement with the North in January 2005. That officially ended more than 20 years of civil war.WH

2009-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Since China took over Macau ten years ago, the enclave has transformed itself from a sleepy colonial backwater to the world's top gambling capital.Macau is the only place in China where gambling is l

2009-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Major rifts within the opposition have been cited as the biggest factor likely to thwart efforts by their leader Anwar Ibrahim to win control of government at the next election, due by 2013, although

2009-12-21 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Israel's defense minister has ordered the army to use massive force to impose a freeze on construction in Jewish settlements in the West Bank. In the event of violent protests, troops will isolate ar

2009-12-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The rebel group responsible for most of the attacks in Nigeria's oil producing region says it destroyed a major crude pipeline in "a warning" strike early Saturday. The Movement for the Emancipation

2009-12-20 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

President Barack Obama has been under pressure to recast the nation's relations with Cuba and ease decades of restrictions on the Communist government. Already the president has ended travel limits o

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Speaking on behalf of the G77 group of developing countries, Sudanese presidential assistant Nafi Ali Nafi pressed for world leaders to sign a legally binding deal to fight climate change. "The develo

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a landmark agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation.The new deal, which was finalized Thursday, allows the United Arab Emirates to rec

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The secretary-general says he is now considering the report and will then pass it on to Guinea's military government, the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and the U.N. S

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Political opponents of Niger's President Mamadou Tandja have agreed to mediation talks to resolve the country's political crisis.Niger's opposition coalition has agreed to hold mediated talks after

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Years of warfare have wrecked Afghanistan's health care system. The country's health infrastructure was completely destroyed by the time the U.S. invasion began at the end of 2001.Since then, with

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The theft of a key symbol at a Nazi death camp in Poland has sparked outrage in Israel. The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem expressed shock over the theft of the infamous iron sign at Ausch

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Jake Sully is a wounded warrior: a U.S. Marine paralyzed from a battlefield injury. The chance to walk again is what initially draws him to a distant, dangerous moon.

"You are not in Kansas anymore

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Ever since the ancient Roman era, people have known that lead, a heavy metal long used in paints, ceramics and construction, is very bad for you. Acute lead exposure, particularly in children, leads

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative launched in 1988 has successfully obliterated polio in 45 of the 46-nation sub-Saharan region. But there have been recent reports of outbreaks in Angola, the

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Cambodia's U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal has charged the Khmer Rouge's former head of state with genocide, the third such charge this week against a former leader of the brutal regime. Khieu Samph

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Twelve players from Eritrea's national football team have sought asylum in Kenya through the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR. The players were reported missing following a regional football tourn

2009-12-19 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations.For those of us in the northern hemisphere, Monday is the first day of Winter, which seems a goo

2009-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

The Senate Banking Committee has voted to approve the nomination of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term as head of the U.S. central bank. The move paves the way for a vote by the

2009-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina has called for parliamentary elections after rejecting negotiations aimed at ending the crisis caused by his military-backed take-over of the country earlier this

2009-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Economists are forecasting a rosier 2010 for global finances than this year has been. But they warn that the economic recovery remains fragile and will not be led by the world's advanced industriali

2009-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is prepared to work with other countries to fund $100 billion a year by 2020 to address climate change needs of developing countries.

2009-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

On a hillside along a busy road just south of Guatemala's capital, Aura Elena stands in the fading sunlight after another day peaking over the shoulders of a team of forensic anthropologists and work

2009-12-18 所属栏目:标准英语|常速英语下载|在线收听

Singer Neil Diamond rings in the holiday season with a compilation of Christmas classics on his new album, 'A Cherry Cherry Christmas.'

The album includes nine songs from his previous holiday