Does weather affect the spread of the coronavirus outside a building, in the open air? 天气是否会影响新冠病毒在户外露天情况下的传播? Not really, experts say. 专家称不会。 The World Health Organization (WHO) says the viru...
The vacation cruise industry has accepted it cannot restart operations this year. 假日邮轮行业已经接受了今年无法重新运营的事实。 Major cruise lines Carnival and Norwegian recently extended a halt on cruises through the end of t...
This will be the second general election since the end of military rule in 2015. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) is expected to win again on the strength of its leader's strong popularity. Hnin, however, says the Nobel Peace Pr...
Nepal says it is reopening to foreign visitors seeking to climb and trek the country's famous mountains. The country has been closed to foreign visitors for the past seven months because of the coronavirus crisis. Nepal's tourism industry has suffere...
A NASA spacecraft that recently collected rocks from an asteroid captured far more material than expected. The American space agency says the sample was so large that it blocked the container door of the collector. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft successfu...
Wildfires destroyed large parts of southeast Australia during the second half of 2019 and early in 2020. Late last week, Australian investigators released an official report on the fires. The investigators for greater efforts to predict the effects o...
Islamic State militants attacked Kabul University on Monday as it held a book fair attended by the Iranian ambassador. The attack led to an hours-long gun battle at the largest school in Afghanistan. When the fighting stopped, at least 22 people were...
American President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden have sharply different ideas about United States foreign policy. In 2016, Trump won the presidency calling for America First and then quickly withdrew the U.S. from several internati...
From VOA Learning English, this is the Health Lifestyle report. If you asked me to name the top life lessons of 2020, my list would likely include these words: Technology skills are a necessity. For the past eight months, many people have been workin...
The International Space Station was just three small rooms when the first crew moved in. The crew members soon discovered there was hardly any space for them to move around. The air was warm and humid, making them feel sticky. Twenty years and 241 vi...