2010-04-22 所属栏目:双语新闻

Britons are increasingly entertaining guests at home with dinner, film and karaoke nights, inspired by television shows on cookery and home entertainment, according to a survey.More than half (53 perc

2010-04-21 所属栏目:双语新闻

Twenty Nepali climbers are setting off to Qomolangma this week to try and remove decades-old garbage from the mountain in the world's highest ever clean-up campaign, organizers said on Monday.Many fo

2010-04-21 所属栏目:双语新闻

England is the least patriotic country in Europe, with just one in three British people aware of the date of St George's Day a survey has shown.Only a third of people were aware that the celebration

2010-04-20 所属栏目:双语新闻

Carrie Underwood has made history after becoming the first female artist to win entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards twice.The former American Idol winner, 27, who last picke

2010-04-20 所属栏目:双语新闻

You've probably heard of hot yoga and power yoga, but now there's another form of the physical and mental activity that's gaining in popularity in India -- water yoga.In the city of Agra, famed for

2010-04-19 所属栏目:双语新闻

With its geothermal assets put in the spotlight by the volcano ash that has grounded much of Europe's air traffic, Iceland on Saturday urged visitors stranded there to take a free dip in its thermal

2010-04-19 所属栏目:双语新闻

Far more people in India have access to a mobile phone than to a toilet, according to a UN study on how to improve sanitation levels globally.India's mobile subscribers totalled 563.73 million at the

2010-04-17 所属栏目:双语新闻

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle earned $5.5 million (£3.5 million) in 2009, more than twice their income in 2008, despite the economic recession.Mr Obama has managed to develop a po

2010-04-16 所属栏目:双语新闻

Simply saying "thank you" may benefit both the recipient and the person who express gratitude, according to the results of studies conducted by researchers at Florida State University in Tallahassee.T

2010-04-15 所属栏目:双语新闻

As the World Cup approaches, South Africa's soccer grannies are working to fulfil their own dream -- competing for glory in America.The 35 women, aged from 50 to 84, play for a team called Vakhegula

2010-04-15 所属栏目:双语新闻

The black dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, for her first official appearance with the Prince of Wales shortly before their engagement in 1981 surfaces at auction this summer.It was rumoured tha

2010-04-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

ProPublica, in a historic first for online journalism, won a coveted Pulitzer Prize on Monday for investigative reporting about controversial deaths at a New Orleans medical center following Hurricane

2010-04-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

Handling a wad of cash may be as good at killing pain than ibuprofen or aspirin, a new study suggests.Researchers at the University of Minnesota carried out a series of studies which revealed those wh

2010-04-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

One of Shakespeare's most famous plays gets a 21st century makeover in a new version of "Romeo and Juliet" which will unfold through Twitter messages and on the YouTube video website.Entitled "Such T

2010-04-13 所属栏目:双语新闻

More than one in five Britons never eat at the table and 85 per cent admit to snacking mindlessly, a new research suggested.People regularly fail to think about what they are eating and many are pilin

2010-04-13 所属栏目:双语新闻

If this 13-year-old American boy succeeds in his bid to climb Mount Everest, he has modest ambitions - pick a small piece of rock from the top of the world as a memento and wear it in a necklace."I wi

2010-04-12 所属栏目:双语新闻

Aliens exist and they live in our midst disguised as humans -- at least, that's what 20 percent of people polled in a global survey believe.The Reuters Ipsos poll of 23,000 adults in 22 countries sho

2010-04-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

A Taiwanese shop worker dubbed Little Fatty told of his shock Thursday at becoming a Susan Boyle-like overnight Internet sensation after a flawless Whitney Houston rendition on a TV talent quest.Lin Y

2010-04-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

The latest creation by Japanese fashion designer Tae Ashida is truly out of this world -- an outfit twinning a blue cardigan and shorts made for astronaut Naoko Yamazaki.The US space shuttle Discovery

2010-04-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

Fast food joints where soldiers wolf down burgers and pizza will soon be a thing of the past at bases in Afghanistan, as the US military reminds soldiers they are at war and not in "an amusement park"

2010-04-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

Archaeologists believe they are on the cusp of shedding new light on the life of William Shakespeare – by digging up what may have been the playwright’s cesspit.Experts have begun excavating the rui

2010-04-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

Japan may have little to celebrate with its economic recovery still fragile, so some cheerleaders are hitting the streets and stages to pep up the mood - including one pom-pom squad whose average age

2010-04-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

This Easter Bunny weighs a whopping three-and-a-half stone and is four foot three inches long - making him the biggest rabbit ever recorded.And he still has not reached his full size, with owner Annet

2010-04-06 所属栏目:双语新闻

A Dubai appeals court on Sunday upheld a one-month prison sentence for a British couple convicted of kissing in a restaurant.The pair landed in court after an Emirati woman complained about the public

2010-04-06 所属栏目:双语新闻

Women might be on a more even footing at work but at home their careers tend to take a backseat to their husband's job with women most likely to quit when both are working long hours, according to a