2010-12-10 所属栏目:双语新闻

Childlessness has reached record levels among a generation of women wrestling with the pressures of careers, mortgages and rocky relationships.One in five women are now reaching middle age without hav

2010-12-10 所属栏目:双语新闻

New York may be known as the city that never sleeps, but Tokyo business people get less time in the sack than their New York peers -- and also those in Paris, Stockholm and Shanghai.According to a sur

2010-12-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

Teenagers from the Chinese city of Shanghai have the best education in the world, according to a major international study of standards in in maths, science and literacy released Tuesday.The Organisat

2010-12-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

It's official - Britons are the fattest people in Europe, a report found today.It appears that we have enjoyed one takeaway meal too many with a quarter of adults in the UK now termed as obese.Irelan

2010-12-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

George W. Bush has been named as the least popular living US president, according to a survey released yesterday.The 64-year-old Republican nicknamed Dubya, who took America to war against terrorism,

2010-12-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

With the festive season approaching, it is the kind of news likely to leave flustered housewives shaking their heads in disbelief.A third of men, it is reckoned, won’t lift a finger in the kitchen th

2010-12-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

"Palinism" and "Obama-mess" are likely to be among the top global words of 2011, as the United States gears up for its next presidential elections, according to a language monitoring group.The coming

2010-12-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

Being born in the summer could give you a sunny disposition for life. And a winter birthday might cast a permanent shadow over your happiness, scientists believe.Experiments suggest that season of bir

2010-12-06 所属栏目:双语新闻

WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear or storing it in your pocket may be hazardous to your health.This paraphrases a warning that cellphone manufacturers include in the small print that is of

2010-12-06 所属栏目:双语新闻

Teenagers would rather be taught about family values than about sex, a survey has found.They see the responsibilities of being a parent as the number one ‘fact of life’ – ahead of sexual intercours

2010-12-03 所属栏目:双语新闻

England’s humiliating defeat in the race to host the 2018 World Cup sparked a bitter new ‘Cold War’ with Russia last night.The £15million bid –spearheaded by David ­Cameron, Prince Willi

2010-12-03 所属栏目:双语新闻

News trumped celebrities in 2010 as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and World Cup soccer in South Africa topped the list of most-searched items of 2010, according to Yahoo!It is the first time

2010-12-02 所属栏目:双语新闻

It used to be the tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages.But now one in five divorces involve the social networking site

2010-12-02 所属栏目:双语新闻

Nine out of 10 people have run up unsecured debt and many fear they will never be able to pay back what they owe, a survey has claimed.Around 89pc of people aged between 18 and 35 said they owed money

2010-12-01 所属栏目:双语新闻

James Franco and Anne Hathaway have just what Academy Awards producers want as hosts of Hollywood's biggest night. They'll put on a show, rather than just another awards ceremony, organizers say.Bru

2010-12-01 所属栏目:双语新闻

Single girls have always grumbled that good-looking men are difficult to find.But science may have just proved them right – because beautiful women are more likely to have daughters than their plaine

2010-11-30 所属栏目:双语新闻

The United States on Monday said it was carrying out a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks and would pursue the whistle-blower website's chief if he were found to have broken the law."We have an ac

2010-11-30 所属栏目:双语新闻

Around one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking, which kills an estimated 600,000 people a year, World Health Organization (WHO) researchers said on Friday.In the first study to ass

2010-11-29 所属栏目:双语新闻

After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner -- a woman from Spain's soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.Angeles Dur

2010-11-29 所属栏目:双语新闻

Two million husbands and wives are not lawfully married because of a Church of England blunder, it was revealed yesterday.Their church weddings are legally invalid because the vicars who married them

2010-11-26 所属栏目:双语新闻

It cost a mere £30 to cobble together. But the see-through black slip credited with helping Kate Middleton catch the eye of a prince could one day be worth £100,000.William was mesmerised

2010-11-26 所属栏目:双语新闻

If you want to catch a man’s attention, don’t bother fluttering your eyelashes or flicking your hair. Just practise your pout.According to a study, a woman’s lips are the most attractive part of he

2010-11-25 所属栏目:双语新闻

He couldn't preserve the political lives of fellow Democrats this month, but he can still save a turkey.President Barack Obama pardoned "Apple," a 45-pound bird, and his feathered friend, "Cider," on

2010-11-25 所属栏目:双语新闻

Thanksgiving is the traditional day to count your blessings, but for some it is also the day to set the house on fire.There are more home fires on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year, with fir

2010-11-24 所属栏目:双语新闻

Contrary to common belief social media websites such as Facebook do not weaken personal ties, they strengthen them in unique ways for different age groups, according to a new study.The rapid spread of