Honduras leaders reject deadline 洪都拉斯领导人拒绝最后期限 The newly installed government in Honduras has rejected international calls to reinstate deposed （免职的） President Manuel Zelaya. The Organization of American States has given Honduras a...
Jackson leaves estate to family 杰克逊把遗产留给家人。 Michael Jackson's will has been filed in a Los Angeles court, giving his entire estate to a family trust. The document, dated 7 July 2002, also reveals the star intentionally （故意的，有意的）...
Politicians provoke poet's ire 政治家引起诗人不满 The new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has chosen to attack politicians in her first composition in the post. Her poem, Politics, published in the Guardian, is a cutting attack on the political worl...
Private funeral held for Fawcett 福塞特的私人葬礼 A private funeral has been held for US actress Farrah Fawcett, who died last week of cancer. Her partner, actor Ryan O'Neal, was a pallbearer （抬棺者） Their son Redmond, who was recently jailed on...
Yemen plane's black box located 也门飞机黑盒子已找到 One of the black box flight recorders from the Yemeni plane which crashed in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday has been located, a French official has said. Efforts to retrieve （取回，恢复） the record...
shVegetarians 'avoid more cancers' 素食主义者可以避免很多癌症 Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer but this does not apply to all forms of the disease, a major study has found. The study involving 60,000 people fo...
Lung patients get singing therapy 肺病患者歌唱疗法 Doctors in London are investigating how singing can help seriously ill patients improve their breathing control. Regular classes are being held at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Hundreds of patients h...
Concerns over older mother trend 关注高龄母亲 An urgent public debate on the trend for women to delay motherhood is needed, leading doctors say. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists will publish evidence on Monday about the increase...
Latvia is 'saved from bankruptcy' 拉脱维亚从破产中得救 Latvia's prime minister says that he has saved the country from bankruptcy. Valdis Dombrovskis told public radio that the decision late on Thursday to cut 500m lats ($1bn; 607m) from the budget...
Kercher police beat me, Knox saysThe woman accused of killing UK student Meredith Kercher has told her Italian trial she was beaten by police who wanted her to name a suspect. American Amanda Knox said she wrongly implicated（纠缠） an innocent man...
A life taken in the name of 'respect' Three men will be sentenced on Friday for murdering Ben Kinsella, who was the 17th teenager to die in a violent killing in the UK capital last year. The 16-year-old brother of Eastenders actress Brooke Kinsella...
Shooting at US Holocaust museum 美国浩劫纪念品博物馆枪击事件 US Park Police Sergeant David Schlosser describes the shootingA gunman armed with a rifle has shot and killed a guard inside Washington DC's Holocaust museum before being wounded in turn,...
Suicide attack on Pakistani hotel 巴基斯坦酒店自杀性袭击 A suicide bomb attack on a luxury hotel in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, has killed 15 people and injured at least 60. Gunmen（枪手，歹徒） stormed the outer security barrier at t...
Air France tail section recovered 法航飞机尾部复原 A Brazilian search team has recovered a large tail section of the Air France jet that crashed a week ago over the Atlantic with 228 people on board. The Brazilian military released photos of divers...
Fourth confirmed swine flu case 第四例猪流感确诊病例 Anti-viral drugs are being issued to treat those affected by the flu A fourth case of swine flu has been confirmed in Northern Ireland. A man who has recently returned from Florida has tested posi...
