Dear Annie: I am in a dead-end marriage and also am the caregiver for my husband's 85-year-old invalid mother. After my mother-in-law came out of the hospital two years ago, I was the only one who volunteered to take her in. I thought it would bring...
After a meeting between the players and hockey's governing body over the weekend, there was hope that a truce had been reached. But on Monday the whole team refused to go to its world cup training camp in the western city of Pune. This has angered th...
It was also, significantly, the first time a woman had won the best director award. Bigelow, however, is reluctant to be referred to as a 'female director', and made no reference to her gender in her Oscars acceptance speech. I'd love to think of mys...
To coincide with the start of the Chinese Year of the Tiger, the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) has launched a campaign to increase the number of tigers living in the wild. The organisation estimates that there are currently only 3,200 wild tigers left in...
William: Hello and welcome to Ask About Britain, the programme where we answer your questions about British life and culture. A lot of young people in China like to go to a karaoke bar when they want to catch up or have some fun together. Yang Li: Th...
John: Well we caught up with ano the r enthusiastic lido swimmer, Callum. Did he have an answer? What reason could he give? What is the attraction of a lido today? I'm not quite sure what the attraction of lidos are, but they are incredibly popular....
Sandfell was one of the funniest TV show ever. Pretty much everyone lovely. Everyone that isn't United State, and probably many other developed countries too. Because after all, anyone engaged and date grand would connect this show absurd take on the...
Next Heather tells us about some of the iconic treasures in the British Library. Well, we have two large exhibition galleries that are open to everybody and free of charge and here you can see some of the nation's most iconic treasures. Such as the M...
John: Hi there, this is BBC Learning English. We're out On the Town again and today we're talking about lidos. Feifei: Lidos? What's a lido? John: It's a very special kind of open-air swimming pool. John: OK, let's hear from some people who have been...
In our last Moment of Science we heard how cockroaches can survive much higher doses of radiation than humans can. But did you know that cockroaches also have a special ability that could allow the m to survive some of the consequences of global warm...
Since cockroaches live underground or in small crevices, one hypothesis was that they might hold their breath because of the build-up of carbon dioxide in these small spaces. But a team of Australian biologists tested cockroach breathing patterns in...
A satellite has to move at a certain speed to balance out gravity; o the rwise it wont stay in orbit. Now, a geo must move at the speed the earth turns. If you put it in a very low altitude, that speed wouldnt be enough to balance gravity. Go higher,...
A geostationary satellite orbits the planet at the same rate as the planet rotates, so the satellite is always over the same patch of ground. Cool! Id like to have one of those about twenty feet over my house. Sadly, geos only work easily at one dist...
Its got a really interesting history. Its only about 200 years old, but it already has about 175,000 people living the re. Its famous for its really clean spa water, which made it very famous in the 1800s when kings and queens and really wealthy peop...
The earth bulges around its equator by about twenty-seven extra miles, which is a three-tenths percent difference from its diameter measured pole-to-pole. The biggest planets in our solar system have even more dramatic love handles. Jupiters equator...
