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英国新闻听力 马德里网球公开赛纳达尔负于费德勒
The Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka said they decided to silence their guns after more than two decades of conflict with government forces. The Tigers said they were ready to lay down their arms, but the spokesman insisted this was not a surrender. A
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英国新闻听力 美财长对经济发表乐观评价
The army in Sri Lanka has announced that the supreme commander of the Tamil Tiger rebels, Velupillai Prabhakaran has been killed, ending 26 years of conflict. State television quoted the military as saying the rebel leader died as he tried to flee fr
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英国新闻听力 奥巴马宣布汽车排放新标准
President Obama has announced tough new measures on vehicle pollution and fuel efficiency to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce American dependence on oil. Mr. Obama said a national standard would be introduced for the first time to cut emission
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英国新闻听力 患有唐氏综合症人群少患癌症
An inquiry commission by the Irish government into the abuse of children at institutions run by the Roman Catholic Church in the Irish Republic has uncovered a catalogue of sexual, physical and emotional abuse stretching back decades. The report foun
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英国新闻听力 奥巴马切尼隔空辩论关塔纳摩监狱计划
In a major speech on national security, President Barack Obama has vigorously defended his plan to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, saying the facility together with brutal interrogation methods had alienated others from America and served a
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英国新闻听力 索马里政府武装与伊斯兰激进党激战
The BBC has been granted access to parts of the Swat Valley in northern Pakistan, where the Pakistani army is waging an offensive against Taliban militants. A BBC correspondent was taken to a mountain ridge which the military said had been an importa
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英国新闻听力 巴基斯坦斯瓦特河谷发生巷战
Intense street fighting is reported in the main town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Mingora, as the Pakistani military embarks on the critical phase in its efforts to retake control of the northwest of the country from spreading Taliban insurgency. An ar
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英国新闻听力 塔米尔猛虎组织承认其领袖死亡
The defeated Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka have admitted for the first time the death of their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in the last days of the war against the military. Charles Haviland reports from the Sri Lankan capital Colombo. A statement
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英国新闻听力 131
The United Nations Security Council has condemned North Korea's latest nuclear weapon test, describing it as a clear violation of its resolutions. The unanimous condemnation came less than 24 hours after North Korea confirmed that it had exploded ano
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英国新闻听力 132
Californias Supreme Court has upheld a ban on marriages between couples of the same sex. However, its also ruled for the ban shouldn't apply retrospectively to the 18,000 couples who were married after June, 2008 when gay marriage was legal. Peter Bo
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英国新闻听力 133
The government in Pakistan has accused Taliban militants of being behind a huge explosion outside the police building in the city of Lahore. At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 injured. Officials say gunmen opened fire and threw grenades
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英国新闻听力 英国伊顿中学因猪流感停课
President Barack Obama said he is confident that progress can be made in the stalled Middle East peace process. The President was speaking in Washington after talks with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting-- the latest in a series in
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英国新闻听力 奥巴马宣布网络安全新计划
President Obama has announced plans to protect the United States from cyber attacks. He said America was particularly vulnerable to such threats because it was so dependent on its computer networks, such as the ones that run the stock exchange and ai
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英国新闻听力 巴基斯坦军队重新占领斯瓦特河谷最大城镇
The Pakistani army says it's regained control of the largest town in the Swat Valley from Taliban Militants. An army spokesman General Athar Abbas said Mingora was now under military control. But soldiers were still meeting pockets of resistance on t
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英国新闻听力 泰坦尼克号最后一名幸存者去世
Aid workers and journalists have painted a picture of destruction and human misery in the Swat Valley of Pakistan, a day after the army retook the main town of Mingero from the Taliban. The International Committee of the Red Cross says tens of thousa
