2009-05-20 所属栏目:双语新闻

An Austrian businessman is raffling off his luxury home and will use the proceeds to help fund microcredits in the Third World, the daily Der Standard reported on Monday.Karl Rabeder, 47, is selling h

2009-05-19 所属栏目:双语新闻

A native of Vienna, Austria, Mr. Drucker was an intellectual who worked as a journalist and studied economics. At some point in his studies he had an epiphany: economists, he realized, 'were interest

2009-05-19 所属栏目:双语新闻

Millions of Britain's women buy under-size clothes as an incentive to help them lose weight, a survey has found.More than a third of women deliberately buy clothes which are too small for them becaus

2009-05-19 所属栏目:双语新闻

Japan's grey-suited bureaucrats have teamed up with a blue cartoon cat and Tokyo fashionistas sporting 'Gothic Lolita' urban chic in an official drive to promote hip Japan around the world.Long fam

2009-05-18 所属栏目:双语新闻

Bribing your child with a chocolate bar to finish his or her maths homework is an excellent idea, according to researchers who claim that the yummy treat could improve the brain's ability to do the m

2009-05-18 所属栏目:双语新闻

The privacy point is important. Who would opt for a shared space if they could have their own? Backpackers stay in youth hostel dormitories, but that is because they cannot afford to pay for privacy.

2009-05-18 所属栏目:双语新闻

If having children late in life runs in your family, longevity may as well, according to a new analysis drawing from historical data from more than 2 million people.Dr. Ken R. Smith of the University

2009-05-15 所属栏目:双语新闻

A sexually suggestive Venus figurine with oversized breasts and thighs dates back at least 35,000 years and shows ancient humans had sex on their minds, researchers said on Wednesday.The 60-millimetre

2009-05-15 所属栏目:双语新闻

A man in Bristol has captured footage of what he believes to be a UFO flying over Britain.Andy Hadlington saw the mysterious blob silently hovering around and filmed it from the window of his office.T

2009-05-15 所属栏目:双语新闻

A Superman costume worn by the late Christopher Reeve will go under the hammer in Australia this month, auction house Bonhams and Goodman said yesterday.Auctioneer Giles Moon said the costume, complet

2009-05-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

The next time you cough or sneeze, there is good reason to cover your mouth.As many as 20,000 viruses are expelled in an average cough, which may be sufficient to infect many people - particularly tho

2009-05-14 所属栏目:双语新闻

A 25-year-old Spanish woman who won a record 126 million euros (172 million dollars) in the Euro Millions lottery only learned of her good luck days later after spending the weekend bed-ridden with th

2009-05-13 所属栏目:双语新闻

Junk food ads account for two-thirds of televised advertisements for food that are shown when children are likely to be watching, researchers into obesity said Friday, based on a study of 11 countries

2009-05-13 所属栏目:双语新闻

The world domination of Scottish singing hopeful Susan Boyle continued with her first appearance on Oprah.The Britain's Got Talent star told chat show queen Oprah Winfrey that the global fanbase achi

2009-05-12 所属栏目:双语新闻

孩子们：
My dear children,你们签名赠给我的画集《美丽的花朵》收到了，非常感谢。
I have received the album of paintings entitled 'Beautiful Flowers' you signed and sent to me. Thank you very much.当

2009-05-12 所属栏目:双语新闻

Men who were grossly overweight at the age of 18 had nearly 50 percent less chance of being married by their 30s and 40s, said an international conference on obesity held in Amsterdam on Thursday.The

2009-05-11 所属栏目:双语新闻

An airline catering exclusively to furry passengers takes to the skies this July with a promise to make air travel everything the domestic animal could want.The first Pet Airways flight will depart Ju

2009-05-11 所属栏目:双语新闻

A budget airline wants to organise weddings in the sky, aiming to be the first carrier to let couples tie the knot at cruising altitude, it said Thursday.Easyjet has applied to local authorities at it

2009-05-10 所属栏目:双语新闻

It was an easy prediction to make: that the recession would end talk of corporate social responsibility. Faced with the fear, or reality, of losing their jobs or homes, consumers would rush past the F

2009-05-09 所属栏目:双语新闻

Comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her actress partner Portia de Rossi topped a poll that asked American moms which celebrities they would feel most comfortable leaving their kids with.DeGeneres and de Ross

2009-05-08 所属栏目:双语新闻

Chanel, the world's oldest dog, celebrated her 21st birthday on Wednesday with a certificate from the Guinness Book of Records and a visit to a dog hotel and spa.The dachshund, a rescue dog from Port

2009-05-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

A bungee jumping, ostrich-riding British charity worker was named Wednesday the winner of what's been dubbed the "Best Job in the World" -- a 150,000 Australian dollar ($111,000) contract to serve as

2009-05-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

Wealth managers at Bank of Montreal kept hearing the same things from Canada's richest families: Help me! My kids know nothing about money and will squander the family fortunes.Two years later, the o

2009-05-07 所属栏目:双语新闻

Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus

2009-05-06 所属栏目:双语新闻

True to their reputation as leisure-loving gourmets, the French spend more time sleeping and eating than anyone else among the world's wealthy nations, according to a study published on Monday.The av