2009-12-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

Feeding garlic and oats to belching cows could be the answer to slash global warming.Welsh farmers will be asked to try out new diets on their livestock to cut the amount of methane their burping rele

2009-12-13 所属栏目:双语新闻

The net worth of Americans rose for the second consecutive time during the third quarter, the U.S. Federal Reserve said in a report Thursday that showed evidence of an important step towards restoring

2009-12-11 所属栏目:双语新闻

US President Barack Obama evoked the cause of a just war yesterday, accepting his Nobel Peace Prize just nine days after sending 30,000 more US troops to war in Afghanistan but promising to use the pr

2009-12-11 所属栏目:双语新闻

Cigarette pack warnings that remind smokers of the fatal consequences of their habit may actually make them smoke more as a way to cope with the inevitability of death, according to researchers.A smal

2009-12-11 所属栏目:双语新闻

A collection of dresses worn by film star Audrey Hepburn fetched 268,000 pounds ($437,800) at auction, more than double the pre-sale estimate, organizers said on Wednesday.More than 40 items from her

2009-12-10 所属栏目:双语新闻

The rise of the so-called “boomerang generation” is laid bare in official figures showing that almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents.By contrast, only one in eig

2009-12-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

Many Australians will really have a merry Christmas as more companies forget the financial crisis this holiday season and splash out on year-end parties, according to a business forecast.After falling

2009-12-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

Brits last an average of eight minutes and 22 seconds before they lose their temper, according to new research.It found that the Internet has increased people's service demands and is eroding the cla

2009-12-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

US National security adviser James Jones says Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden still spends some time inside Afghanistan.Most recent US estimates have placed bin Laden inside Pakistan. But Jones, a ret

2009-12-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

Britain's Queen Elizabeth has written to newspaper and magazine editors over the issue of paparazzi photographers intruding on the royal family's privacy, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday."The lette

2009-12-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

Almost half of Britons do not believe human behaviour is the main cause of global warming, a new poll showed Sunday, a day before world leaders begin crunch climate talks in Copenhagen.The ICM survey

2009-12-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, new research suggests.Slashing carbon dioxide emissions could save millions of lives, mos

2009-12-04 所属栏目:双语新闻

Surrounded by celebrity performers and characters from the North Pole, the Obama family on Thursday led a countdown and lighted the National Christmas Tree.First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Mali

2009-12-04 所属栏目:双语新闻

Going "green" has never been so festive as in westernmost Canada where two start-ups are offering an eco-friendly Christmas tree rental service for the holiday period.For about 100 dollars, Evergrow C

2009-12-03 所属栏目:双语新闻

A home movie showing a relaxed Marilyn Monroe apparently smoking marijuana has surfaced, retrieved from an attic some 50 years after it was filmed.The reel-to-reel silent, color film taken at a privat

2009-12-03 所属栏目:双语新闻

Nasa has found what it calls “strong evidence” that life once existed on Mars after re-examining a meteorite.A research team at Johnson Space Centre in Houston has been re-examining a meteorite that

2009-12-02 所属栏目:双语新闻

Argentina's Lionel Messi has won the Golden Ball awarded to the European Footballer of the Year, becoming the sixth Barcelona player to take the award and the first since Brazilian Ronaldinho in 2005

2009-12-02 所属栏目:双语新闻

A gruesome account of a 1666 blood transfusion and amusing notes about how an 8-year-old Mozart responded to tests of his genius were published on Monday as part of an online history of scientific end

2009-12-01 所属栏目:双语新闻

Turns out thosediscredited rumors of a possible Chelsea Clinton wedding last summer were mostly just premature: The 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary

2009-12-01 所属栏目:双语新闻

Britons think France is the least hospitable country in which to go on holiday, according to a new online survey of 1,412 Britons.Respondents ranked 10 countries including Mexico, France and the Unite

2009-11-30 所属栏目:双语新闻

Golf star Tiger Woods took responsibility on Sunday for crashing his SUV outside his Florida house and said his wife acted courageously to help him, but again canceled an interview with authorities in

2009-11-30 所属栏目:双语新闻

Looking to work overseas? Head to Canada, Australia or Thailand, according to an annual global survey which found recession-hit Britain was one of the worst locations to live for expatriates.The secon

2009-11-27 所属栏目:双语新闻

Crashing a state dinner at the White House apparently takes a security breakdown as well as some kind of nerve.The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a V

2009-11-27 所属栏目:双语新闻

Cutting meat production and consumption by 30 percent would help to reduce carbon emissions and improve health in the most meat-loving nations, scientists said on Wednesday.Using prediction models, Br

2009-11-26 所属栏目:双语新闻

After 10 months in office, US President Barack Obama granted his first pardon Wednesday to "Courage," a 45-pound (20-kilogram) turkey spared from the Thanksgiving dinner table. Accompanied by daughter