AS IT IS 2015-03-27 UN: African Nations Should Change 'Pursuit' Laws 联合国建议非洲国家改变追捕法律 A United Nations committee is calling on some African countries to change their laws so police can cross national borders when they are...
Satellite Will Watch Sun Storms, Send Warnings to Earth 卫星关注太阳风暴并向地球发送警报 A new satellite is travelling 1.5 million kilometers over a 110-day period to enter an orbit of the sun. It is called DSCOVR -- the Deep Space Cl...
Investigators Listen to Final Words from Pilots in Plane Crash in France 在法国坠毁客机黑匣子已被调查人员解读 French officials say they have gathered usable sound recording from the black box of the airplane that crashed in France T...
AS IT IS 2015-03-26 Party Politics in Nigerias Presidential Election 尼日利亚总统选举中的政党政治 Nigeria is holding elections Saturday following two years of political unrest. Voters will elect both a president and parliament. The ruli...
AS IT IS 2015-03-26 Overfishing Opponent Wins Environment Prize 过度捕捞反对者获得环境奖 A leading American supporter of a method to prevent overfishing has won a major environmental prize. Jane Lubchenco served as head of the National Oc...
Too Much Gaming is a Pain in the Neck From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle report. Most children have heard their parents at one time or another yell sit up straight! or dont slouch! In the past, this was usually heard at the d...
French Officials Say All on Plane Dead in Crash An airplane carrying 150 passengers and crew crashed Tuesday in the French Alps. French officials said all on the plane were killed. The victims include 16 schoolchildren. The plane was traveling from B...
AS IT IS 2015-03-25 Scrap Metal Separation May Become Less Costly 废金属分离技术成本可能会降低 Recycling, or re-using, metals is much less costly than making them from raw materials in the Earth, called ore. But when old cars, household...
AS IT IS 2015-03-25 Prison Watchdog Group Watching US Jails 监狱监管组织关注美国监狱 The United States has almost a fourth of the world's prison population -- more than two million people, to be exact. That number comes from the Internati...
Yemen Asks for Help As Rebels Head South 也门寻求外界帮助对抗南下胡塞叛军 Soldiers loyal to Yemens president fought off Houthi rebels early Monday. Militia and security officials said the rebels had been sent toward the southern city...
AS IT IS 2015-03-24 Hundreds in Hanoi Protest Tree Cutting 河内数百人抗议砍伐树木 Many people in Hanoi have expressed anger about the governments plan to cut down thousands of the citys trees. They have protested around the city and on soc...
AS IT IS 2015-03-24 Singapore's Founding Father Lee Kuan Yew Dies at 91 新加坡国父李光耀逝世 享年91岁 Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew died early Monday. He was 91 years old. Mr. Lee was Singapores leader from 1959 until 1990...
AS IT IS 2015-03-24 Landmark to Close as Camp David Hosts Afghan Meeting 戴维营举办的阿富汗会议或达里程碑协议 Since the 1950s, American presidents have been going to Camp David in the mountains of Maryland, just outside Washington,...
Graphene: The Material of the 21st Century 21世纪的新材料石墨烯 Graphene is a type of graphite mineral. Experts often call it 'The Material of the 21st Century' because of its special properties. Some U.S. companies are already using graphen...
AS IT IS 2015-03-23 Would You Eat Food from Fukushima? 你会吃来自福岛的食物吗? Thousands of delegates from around the world gathered this month in northeast Japan for a United Nations conference on disaster relief. Four years ago, the area...
