Fungicide for Plants May Hurt Honeybees除草剂可能对蜜蜂造成伤害 根据一项最新调查结果，一种广泛用于抵抗植物疾病的化学剂会对蜜蜂造成伤害，这项结果令人吃惊。美国之声记者梅根麦格拉思带来...
Futuristic Movie 'Elysium' Underscores Today's Ills 未来主义电影针砭时弊 South African filmmaker Neil Blomkamp returns with a new sci-fi film, Elysium. Like his previous futuristic drama District 9, Elysium tackles social separation in a dy...
South Africa Marks National Womens Day 南非妇女节的来历 Friday, August 9th, is National Womens Day in South Africa. It commemorates the 1956 march by 20-thousand women against the countrys apartheid era pass laws. The laws severely restricted...
Egypt Upheaval Poses Dilemma for Washington 美国对埃及援助陷两难 CAIRO America's relations with Egypt have been defined in large part by the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty and the financial rewards to Egypt for maintaining it. But current up...
New York Probation Center's New Tack on Rehabilitation 纽约感化中心的新康复办法 NEW YORK Probation offices, where convicts must report regularly as an alternative to prison time, tend to be grim places. But New York City is experimenting...
Drone Strikes Key as Terror Threat Keeps US Embassies Closed STATE DEPARTMENT Several U.S. embassies and consulates remain closed as the U.S. works to counter potential al-Qaida attacks in the Middle East. Another day of 19 U.S. embassy closings arou...
Analysts: Arab Uprisings Could Redraw Middle East Map 分析者: 阿拉伯的崛起可能重绘中东的版图 LONDON With civil war raging in Syria and the conflict threatening to draw in neighboring states, there is speculation about possible geopo...
Goats Get a Capitol Hill Job 山羊获得国会山工作 While members of the U.S. Congress are on vacation this month, work continues around the U.S. Capitol. Not by Congressional aides, though. A herd of goats was set loose in the Historic Congress...
Kerry, Hagel to Meet with Russian Counterparts 克里、黑格将访问俄罗斯 STATE DEPARTMENT U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Defense Ministe...
State Department Establishes Office for Religious Engagement WASHINGTON Secretary of State John Kerry has appointed a professor of Christian ethics as the first director of the State Departments Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives. The new of...
Top 5 Songs for Week Ending August 10 Were rolling the five most popular songs in the Billboard Magazine Hot 100 pop singles chart, for the week ending August 10, 2013. We only get one new song this week, but what a song it is! Thats on the way; for...
Murder Convictions Highlight Roma Discrimination in Europe LONDON A court in Hungary has jailed three men for life and a fourth for 13 years for a series of killings targeting the Roma population. Advocacy groups say violence, intimidation and discri...
East London Still Waiting for Olympics Legacy 伦敦人期待看到奥运收益的到来 LONDON London is marking the first anniversary of what were widely hailed as very successful Olympic Games. Officials say the promised long-term benefits from th...
Poverty Forces Children to Work Illegally in Pakistan 贫困迫使巴基斯坦儿童非法工作 KARACHI, PAKISTAN Despite laws in Pakistan that prohibit child labor in hazardous jobs, millions of children continue to work in order to put food on the...
Cairo on Edge as Military Warns of Crackdown 开罗民众静坐遭军事镇压警告 CAIRO Egyptian authorities say they will not tolerate the massive sit-ins by members of the largely Islamist opposition, but threats of dispersal are being dismissed...
