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A thirteen year old swimming success 十三岁的游泳健将 Need some inspiration? Looking for a sporting hero to emulate? Then look no further than thirteen-year-old Tom Daley from Plymouth in the UK. Tom is the new European swimming champion foll
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Chaos as New Terminal Opens 新航站楼的混乱 London Heathrow is the biggest airport in the UK, and it also handles more international passenger traffic than any other airport in the world. For this reason, expansion was planned and on 27th March
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The Final Chapter? 故事尾声？ Was Princess Diana murdered? The verdict is no, according to an inquest held into the cause of her death over the last six months. The big question was whether the deaths of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed in
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A Variety of Athletic Runners and Fundraisers 众多运动员和基金筹集人员 The London Marathon is an annual event and of the thousands of runners who take part, many of them have a story to tell as to why they are running the 26.2 mile (42.2
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Britons Feeling the Pinch 英国人感到手头拮据 If you watch the news in Britain or look at a British newspaper at the moment, a term you are more than likely to come across is 'credit crunch'. It has become a bit of a buzzword, but what does i
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The World Snooker Championship 世界斯诺克冠军赛 Snooker is a big sport in China. Sources suggest there are 300 million snooker players there, which is more than the rest of the world put together. So it's no surprise that some of the world's
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Goodbye Ken, Hello Boris 送旧迎新 London has a new mayor, after its citizens voted in the Conservative Party candidate Boris Johnson, ahead of Labour's Ken Livingstone. Well-known for his wild blonde hair, his self-deprecating humour and his repu
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Stars Turn Out for the Premiere in London 明星亮相伦敦首映式 Sex and the City was a very popular TV show that ran from 1999 to 2004. It was a romantic comedy drama based on the semi-autobiographical New York newspaper columns written by Cand
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China Mourns Victims of the Sichuan Earthquake 中国为震灾遇难者哀悼 China is coming to the end of an official period of mourning for those who died in last weeks earthquake. For three days, there have been no entertainment events and the go
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More Tents Arriving in Chengdu 更多帐篷抵达成都 Badly-needed tents have been flown to China's earthquake disaster zone in the latest delivery of aid from Britain. The first of three jumbo jetloads of 5,000 tents arrived at Chengdu airport and
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Devil May Care New Bond Book 肆无忌惮，不顾一切 邦德新书 Fans of James Bond have been thrilled with the release of the new Bond book Devil May Care, which was published on 28th May 2008. Ian Fleming was the creator of the fictional chara
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Divers Battle Deadly Dragon 潜水员与龙搏斗 What does the word dragon make you think of? The chances are, if you are thinking of a Chinese dragon or 'long', you will think of a long serpent-like mythical creature which is benevolent, wise and l
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The Queens 82nd Birthday 英女王82岁生日 The Queen has celebrated her official birthday with the Trooping the Colour parade in central London. Thousands of spectators joined the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at the annual military spectacle th
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A Fresh Beginning 重新开始 Do you ever feel sick of your life? Then why not sell it? This is exactly what one man is attempting to do following the breakdown of his marriage. Ian Usher, a 44-year-old British man living in Australia, is using the
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Player Makes History for Chinese Tennis 郑洁改写中国网球历史 Zheng Jie yesterday became the first Chinese singles player to get through to the semi-final of a major tennis competition. She beat 18th seed Nicole Vaidisova 6-2 5-7 6-1. The ma
