2009-08-10 所属栏目:双语新闻

Stiletto heels could be banned from the workplace because of health and safety reasons, according to the Trade Union bosses.The Trade Union Congress, predominantly male, has proposed a motion arguing

2009-08-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

US presidential couple Barack and Michelle Obama, Brad Pitt and French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy all made the cut for an annual list of the world's best dressed -- and gave a few tips on where t

2009-08-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

The Mona Lisa, one of the world's most famous paintings, has been recreated with 3,604 cups of coffee - and 564 pints of milk.The different colours were created by adding no, little or lots of milk t

2009-08-06 所属栏目:双语新闻

Sixty-one percent of Americans believe the United States did the right thing by dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 64 years ago, according to a new poll.Older voters, men and Republica

2009-08-06 所属栏目:双语新闻

A growing number of British teenagers are swapping sexually explicit images of themselves on mobile phones leaving them open to bullying and victimization by their peers, police and a children's char

2009-08-05 所属栏目:双语新闻

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's daughter has said she was amazed by the attention her father lavished on a teenage model, in a rare criticism of the scandal-hit leader by one of his childr

2009-08-05 所属栏目:双语新闻

British men make some of the best husbands in the world because they are more willing to do housework, new research suggests.Experts claim that women are more attracted to men if they believe they wil

2009-08-04 所属栏目:双语新闻

A jobless graduate has sued her former college for the more than £40,000 she paid in tuition fees after she failed to find work.Trina Thompson, 27, claims Monroe College in New York did not do e

2009-08-04 所属栏目:双语新闻

The sixth edition of "UCLA Slang" is being published this month and it is just "presh!"The book is released every four years by linguistics professor Pamela Munro and her students at the University of

2009-08-03 所属栏目:双语新闻

HIV/AIDS infection rates may increase when South Africa hosts the 2010 World Cup, the country's health minister said on Friday."2010 is going to come with good things but it may also come with danger

2009-08-03 所属栏目:双语新闻

Russia will no longer include free cigarettes in its food rations for servicemen but will compensate by providing them with candy, a top general said Thursday."We are no longer buying cigarettes for t

2009-07-31 所属栏目:双语新闻

Fans of the Harry Potter franchise are suspected of vandalising a series of traffic stop signs in the small suburb of Wauwatosa, Milwaukee.Police have discovered that several signs have had the word

2009-07-31 所属栏目:双语新闻

Is it possible to tell how happy we all are?Yes, according to US scientists who have devised a way to measure the happiness of millions of bloggers -- and found Michael Jackson's death was one of the

2009-07-30 所属栏目:双语新闻

I was interested that an Italian former deputy culture minister said last week that “men in power need lots of sex” and “if Berlusconi does not gain sexual satisfaction he governs badly”.
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2009-07-30 所属栏目:双语新闻

Sybil the cat, who moved into Downing Street shortly after Prime Minister Gordon Brown took office two years ago, has died after a short illness.The black and white feline, named after Basil Fawlty's

2009-07-30 所属栏目:双语新闻

New York has been rated the best US city for singles, bumping Atlanta out of the top spot.The Big Apple also edged past Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Washington, D.C., which rounded out the top five ci

2009-07-29 所属栏目:双语新闻

The call girl who claims to have slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be guest of honour at an "I love Silvio" theme party in a renowned Paris nightclub, organisers said Tuesday.Pa

2009-07-29 所属栏目:双语新闻

The share of Americans who think the Federal Reserve is doing an excellent-to-good job has sunk even as chairman Ben Bernanke has taken unprecedented steps to try to prevent a financial catastrophe, a

2009-07-28 所属栏目:双语新闻

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has stopped using Facebook after being deluged by friend requests.The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft chairman said managing his profile had become "way too mu

2009-07-28 所属栏目:双语新闻

Since Michael Jackson's sudden death on June 25, the rumor mill over details of his bizarre personal life has ground away nearly non-stop, and on Friday, one company said it was turning his hair into

2009-07-27 所属栏目:双语新闻

We all have those days when all we want is to crawl back in bed for a few more hours. Unfortunately, few of us have that luxury. The following hints may help you stay energized, or at least get you go

2009-07-27 所属栏目:双语新闻

World number one Roger Federer's daughters are less than 48 hours old but bookmakers on Friday had already posted odds on the twins winning Wimbledon.British bookies Ladbrokes were offering 100-1 for

2009-07-27 所属栏目:双语新闻

Around 15 million of us will leave a cup of tea to go cold today while a similar amount will forget where they put the keys to their house or car.Meanwhile, 12 million go to the shops only to complete

2009-07-24 所属栏目:双语新闻

In deciding whether to come out at work, what are the most important considerations?
在决定是否在办公室公开性取向的时候，什么考虑因素是最重要的？ 让你少奋斗八年的工作经验First, make sure it's a safe

2009-07-24 所属栏目:双语新闻

Some British parishioners are being advised to hug rather than shake hands "as a sign of peace" in measures by churches to try to stop the spread of swine flu, a report said Wednesday.The Church of En