2010-05-27 所属栏目:双语新闻

There is unlikely to be a tweet out of the Spain players at the World Cup after coach Vicente del Bosque banned them from using social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook during the tourname

2010-05-26 所属栏目:双语新闻

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is facing embarrassment over an internet film featuring explicit comments she made about sex and love as a young model.The 27-minute film, which has been posted on the video-sharin

2010-05-26 所属栏目:双语新闻

Raleigh, North Carolina surpassed Washington, Seattle and Boston to be named the American city with the best quality of life in a new poll.It scored top marks in the survey by the website Portfolio.co

2010-05-25 所属栏目:双语新闻

Police have unveiled a pedal-powered patrol car complete with siren and blue flashing light.Officers believe building their new five-gear vehicle, which has a top speed of 20 miles per hour, will help

2010-05-25 所属栏目:双语新闻

Authorities in Barcelona, fed up with tourists wandering the streets in their swimming costumes, are preparing a massive campaign to convince them to put on clothes when they leave the beach."We want

2010-05-24 所属栏目:双语新闻

Forget cosmetic surgery. The ancient treatment of acupuncture is gaining new popularity as a beauty secret in Japan about 1,500 years after it first came there from China.As aesthetic sessions increas

2010-05-24 所属栏目:双语新闻

Ever wonder why overhearing a cellphone conversation is so annoying? American researchers think they have found the answer.Whether it is the office, on a train or in a car, only half of the conversati

2010-05-21 所属栏目:双语新闻

What is red but green, open but closed and old but new? Answer: London's stunning new double-decker buses.The traditional red double-deckers are a symbol of London. Their iconic status was sealed in

2010-05-21 所属栏目:双语新闻

Men are as likely as women to suffer from postnatal depression, a study shows.One in ten fathers - the same ratio as mothers - were found to suffer before or after birth.By the time their child reache

2010-05-20 所属栏目:双语新闻

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday he was banning all drivers of United Nations vehicles from texting while driving, to back efforts to curb a practice believed to kill thousands of peopl

2010-05-20 所属栏目:双语新闻

Worried about the state of your marriage? Don't live in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Las Vegas and Billings, Montana where divorce is most prominent.But a report in Men's Health magazine, which ranked the 100

2010-05-19 所属栏目:双语新闻

England will finally win the World Cup after 44 years of pain if City boffins are to be believed.European champions Spain will be runners-up with the Netherlands winning the third place play-off, acco

2010-05-19 所属栏目:双语新闻

Warren Buffett is again auctioning a steak lunch to benefit a San Francisco charity, after last year's bidding failed to generate a record bid for the first time since 2004.The 11th annual auction be

2010-05-18 所属栏目:双语新闻

Britain's new coalition government cut its own pay by five percent on Thursday in a sign of the tough medicine the country faces to bring down a record budget deficit.The centre-right Conservatives a

2010-05-18 所属栏目:双语新闻

Famously weather-obsessed British people spend on average six months of their lives talking about whether it's going to rain or shine, according to a survey published Friday.Speculation about whether

2010-05-17 所属栏目:双语新闻

Almost everyone stood when the bride walked down the aisle in her white gown, but not the wedding conductor, because she was bolted to her chair.The nuptials at this ceremony were led by "I-Fairy," a

2010-05-17 所属栏目:双语新闻

A Japanese lingerie company has developed a concept bra that doubles as a rice paddy.Triumph, makers of other gimmick bras including one that comes with a sushi set and another that comes with solar p

2010-05-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

Britain's new Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday banned the use of mobile phones at cabinet meetings in a bid to ensure his top team stay focused on the challenges facing them, his spokeswoman

2010-05-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

The only known audio recording of a 1966 Beatles press conference, in which John Lennon is grilled about saying the band was more popular than Jesus, is expected to sell for about $20,000 at auction i

2010-05-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

Football fans could put their health at risk during the World Cup this summer by drinking too much and having unprotected sex, a charity has warned.THT has published an online guide, entitled Scoring

2010-05-13 所属栏目:双语新闻

Britain's new coalition government is a source of some bewilderment in a country used to one-party governments -- but its two leaders seemed determined to see the funny side on Wednesday.Sketchwriter

2010-05-13 所属栏目:双语新闻

Nothing makes us happier than our families and loved ones, a new study shows, with face-to-face socializing beating reaching out to people online hands down.The Happiness Barometer, conducted in 16 co

2010-05-12 所属栏目:双语新闻

Playboy readers are going to need glasses for a close look at the upcoming issue of the magazine -- 3-D glasses.The centerfold picture in the June edition of Playboy will be in 3-D, Playboy spokeswoma

2010-05-12 所属栏目:双语新闻

A piece of physicist Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree is to defy gravity by being carried into space on the next NASA shuttle mission.The 4-inch-long wood sample, which is normally held in the Royal Soc

2010-05-11 所属栏目:双语新闻

The age old dilemma about what brides should do with their wedding dress once their honeymoon is over appears to have been solved by scientists.British researchers have developed an environmentally fr