模仿文本: Exploraton is always bold and always fraught with risk, from Antarctica to the boundaries of space, from President Kennedy's famous speech at Rice University to the conquest of the Moon less than seven years later, from today's intern...
The UK luxury giant Burberry is one brand to have warned of lower profits amid a weakening demand from the Far East. Is it the sign of the times? I've caught up with Roger Saul, founder of the British luxury brand Mulberry now has his own retail desi...
模仿文本: Recently in America, exceptionalism has become the new name for this illness. All nations are exceptional, but some are more exceptional than others and America is the most exceptional of all. And then hatred of difference, notice - I...
模仿文本: Cars, car parts, kitchen appliances and paper, these are the things that make for a scuffle over trade between China and the United States. First the Obama administration announced it would launch a case at the World Trade Organizatio...
模仿文本: More nations are taking part and the number of events remains essentially the same. And in classic economics, if supply remains the same and demand increases, the price of those medals will increase. It makes it difficult for the prev...
模仿文本: Andrea Sella is filling theatres and lecture halls up and down the country with dramatic demonstrations of chemistry. He is a professor of University College London and a sleeves-rolled-up bench chemist. Colleagues go to him because o...
模仿文本: Today, with the start of the new academic year in Iran and the numbers of female students are likely to be down in many university faculties. Iran was one of the first countries in the Middle East to allow women to study at university...
模仿文本: Unless a deal is struck by the 31st of December American tax breaks dating from the Bush presidency will be dropped and a series of draconian spending cuts imposed and many are afraid that a recession lies at the bottom of that fiscal...
模仿文本: Nigeria have recalled Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel for next month's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at home to Liberia. The first leg ended 2-2. Mikel is yet to play for the Eagles since coach Stephen Keshi took over in November....
模仿文本: I'm Mariko Oi and for this BBC World Service Assignment programme, I'm in Japan. This hot spring hotel in the west of the country is the oldest in the world. It was founded in 718 when Europe was still in the Dark Ages. The owner is c...
模仿文本: Since the invention of currencies such as Bitcoin in 2009, it seemed to sound like a breath of fresh air - the freedom to pin money back and forth across the world without banks or governments charging you a penny in transaction fees...
模仿文本: For the past week, Britain has been gripped by the story of the missing 15-year-old English school girl who disappeared to France with her married maths teacher who is twice her age. The British and French police have been searching f...
模仿文本: We tend to think there are two types of reasoning: deduction, where we move with logical certainty from general principles to a particular conclusion, as in all swans are white, this is a swan, so this must be white; and induction, wh...
模仿文本: Prisoner Brendan Bik McFarlane was committed to the fight for independence from British rule. He was serving a life sentence for his part in a gun and bomb attack against unionist pub in Belfast. Five were killed and another 60 people...
模仿文本: Queens Park Rangers remain bottom of the English Premier League following a 2-1 home defeat to West Ham on Monday night. The BBC's John Motson reports from Loftus Road. West Ham moving to the top six with their first away win since pr...