2009-09-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hit back at his critics on Thursday, saying he is far and away the best leader in Italian history and has never considered resigning over scandals concerning

2009-09-11 所属栏目:双语新闻

A set of roomy bloomers that once belonged to Queen Victoria are back in royal drawers.The underwear — which has a 56-inch (142-centimeter) waist — has been added to Britain's Royal Ceremonial Dres

2009-09-11 所属栏目:双语新闻

Former US president George W. Bush topped a poll of the worst examples of mangled English released Wednesday, followed closely by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Donald Rumsfeld.French footballer-cum-philos

2009-09-10 所属栏目:双语新闻

Tall people lead happier lives than their more vertically challenged peers, according to a new study which found that most miserable men are almost an inch shorter than average.Researchers found that

2009-09-10 所属栏目:双语新闻

When Mrs Obama first stepped on to the international stage, her arms made almost as many headlines as her husband's policies.How does a woman of 45, an age at which most ladies banish sleeveless item

2009-09-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

Couples across New York are taking advantage of Wednesday's once-in-a-lifetime date - 09/09/09 - to tie the knot.When Justin Allsopp, a 29-year-old child advocate, proposed to Barbara Fitzgerald, she

2009-09-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

Women in some of Britain's leading financial companies receive around 80 percent less in bonus and performance-linked pay than their male colleagues, the country's equality watchdog said on Monday.A

2009-09-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

Japan's next leader, Yukio Hatoyama, probably never thought a song he recorded 20 years ago would one day fetch a pretty penny on online auction sites.The vinyl single, "Take Heart - Fly, Dove of Pea

2009-09-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

Cellphone feels like a part of your body? A global survey has found that most people can't live without their mobiles, never leave home without them and, if given a choice, would rather lose their wa

2009-09-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

Three watercolours believed painted by a young Adolf Hitler were auctioned off for a total of 42,000 euros ($60,000) in the Bavarian city of Nuremberg on Saturday.German auctioneer Herbert Weidler sai

2009-09-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

Who says you can't buy friends? An Australian online marketing company is selling friends and fans to Facebook members after offering a similar service to Twitter users.Advertising, marketing and pro

2009-09-04 所属栏目:双语新闻

What would you see if you could fly over Mars in a plane and look out the window?It must be something like the thousands of curious, intriguing and spectacular images taken by the High Resolution Imag

2009-09-04 所属栏目:双语新闻

Germans, who sometimes see themselves as guardians of the environment, are hoarding energy-guzzling incandescent light bulbs ahead of a looming European Union-wide ban, the GfK market research agency

2009-09-03 所属栏目:双语新闻

A third of teenage British girls say they have suffered sexual abuse at the hands of their boyfriends, according to a report by a children's charity on Tuesday.A quarter of girls also experienced vio

2009-09-03 所属栏目:双语新闻

A wire-haired dachshund that held the record as the world's oldest dog and celebrated its last birthday with a party at a dog hotel and spa has died at age 21 — or 147 in dog years.The dog, named Ch

2009-09-02 所属栏目:双语新闻

A swine flu soft toy has gone on sale on the internet - to help educate and reassure children about the potentially deadly virus.The stuffed toy has been designed to represent a "cuddlier" version of

2009-09-02 所属栏目:双语新闻

Japan's next prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, likes to wash dishes, enjoys animal movies and is secretly addicted to shrimp crackers, according to his wife Miyuki, a newspaper said on Monday.Hatoyama,

2009-09-01 所属栏目:双语新闻

Former President George W. Bush's daughter, Jenna Bush Hager, is set to become a correspondent for the U.S. television news and talk show "Today."NBC, which airs "Today" weekday mornings, said on Mon

2009-09-01 所属栏目:双语新闻

A moon rock given to the Dutch prime minister by Apollo 11 astronauts in 1969 has turned out to be a fake.Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where the rock has attracted tens of thousands of visito

2009-08-31 所属栏目:双语新闻

Yukio Hatoyama, who led his opposition party to a landslide win in Japan's weekend elections Monday promised to build consensus and avoid "arrogance" in pursuing his party's political programme.Medi

2009-08-31 所属栏目:双语新闻

It pays to work in Switzerland: employees in Zurich and Geneva have the highest net wages in the world, a study by banking group UBS shows, while those in India's Mumbai take home the lowest.The Swis

2009-08-28 所属栏目:双语新闻

Forget chip fat, sugar cane or rapeseed oil – the latest source of biofuel could be watermelons.Scientists have discovered that the fruit is a great source of sugar that can be readily distilled into

2009-08-28 所属栏目:双语新闻

The estranged wife of Premier Silvio Berlusconi says in a book published yesterday that it was her husband's alleged lies that pushed her to file for divorce at the outset of the sex scandal involvin

2009-08-27 所属栏目:双语新闻

Tens of thousands of people from around the world hurled tonnes of ripe tomatoes at each other Wednesday in an annual food fight that leaves the eastern Spanish town of Bunol covered in red pulp.More

2009-08-27 所属栏目:双语新闻

Actress Jessica Biel has overtaken Brad Pitt as the most dangerous celebrity to search in cyberspace, according to Internet security company McAfee Inc.For the third consecutive year, McAfee surveyed