Nasa doubles Mars traffic 美将发射两枚探测器登陆火星 An artist's impression of what the new rovers will look like 想象中的新的漫游者的样子 The American space agency, Nasa, has announced that it is planning to send two unmanne
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France honours de Gaulle 法国对戴高乐将军表示敬意 President Chirac: Not complacent about World War ll 希拉克:不对二战胜利自鸣得意 President Chirac has opened a new museum dedicated to World War II to mark the 60th anniversary
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China plagued by locusts 中国遭蝗害 Huge swarms of locusts have been destroying crops in northern China - a region which is already suffering from its worst drought in more than a decade. Two areas have been struck by the locust plague at once.
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UK and China boost learning links 中英将加强教育合作 The internet can bring educational contacts 互联网可加强教育领域的交流 The UK and China have signed a deal aimed at boosting education and training links. Latest figures show
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Boys Discover Two-Headed Turtle 五个男孩发现一双头龟 The newest resident of White River Bait Tackle has twice the appetite of the others its a turtle with two heads. Charles Newby, 7, one of the five boys who found the pint-sized painted tu
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Brazil airport thieves snatch $1.7m 巴西机场170万美元被抢 Sao Paulo has a serious crime problem 圣保罗犯罪问题严重 Armed men have burst into Sao Paulo city airport and stolen three million reals ($1.7m) from an aeroplane. It was an
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Fuel from human waste 人类排泄物可转化为燃料 Windpower: One form of renewable energy 风能：一种可再生能源 A new process which turns human excrement into valuable fuel has been developed by scientists in Thailand. They have produc
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Caspian Crisis Cuts Caviar Catch 里海危机致使鱼子酱产量大幅降低 Russian caviar stocks are dwindling fast 俄国鱼子酱库存迅猛减少 Gourmets are going to have to pay a lot more for their black caviar this year if they can find i
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Market merger wins approval 股票交易所合并提议获通过 Frankfurt's board discussed the merger at a speacial meeting 法兰克福股票交易所监督委员会召开 特别会议讨论合并问题 Plans to merge the stock markets of London a
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Red tides increase off China coast 中国沿海赤潮增多 The number of red tides increasing 赤潮光临次数增多 Untreated sewage being pumped into the sea off the east coast of China is causing potentially dangerous red tides in the waters ar
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Credit card companies in dock 信用卡公司上了被告席 The two companies control more than 75% of the market 两家公司控制着美国75%的市场 A court in the United States has begun hearing the US Government case against the credit card c
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Water 'found on Mars' 火星上发现有水 The brine seepage is believed to be in Candor Chasm 咸水渗出物应该是在Candor Chasm There is currently water on the surface of Mars, Nasa scientists believe. The evidence is contained in pictures ta
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Eastern Atlantic fishing 'unsustainable' 大西洋东部捕渔过度 Overfishing is a greater threat to the area than pollution 对这一海区，过度捕捞的威胁大于污染的威胁 Two-thirds of the main commercial fish species caught in the
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Aids to kill 'one in two Africans' 艾滋病将使一半非洲人丧生 The UN is cutting life expectancy rates in Africa 非洲人寿命减短 The Aids virus will kill half of all young adults in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, according to a s
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Helicopter Crashes On Roof 直升飞机坠落屋顶 Police are investigating the cause of the crash 警方正在调查坠机事件的原因 A family and three aircrew escaped unhurt after a police helicopter spun out of the sky and crashed through th
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EU overhauls aid system 欧盟将彻底改革其援助计划 European aid too often arrives too late 欧盟援助总是姗姗来迟 The European Commission is to radically overhaul the way it runs its vast foreign aid programme after years of ineffic
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France runs out of cash 巴黎现金短缺 Cash-less society: Parisians queue to get at their francs. 现金短缺:巴黎市民排队取款 More than half of France's cash dispensers are standing empty because of a week-long strike by security guards
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New hope in Aids fight 抗争艾滋病的新希望 Drugs should be more affordable （艾滋病药物应更便宜些） Some of the world's biggest pharmaceuticals firms have announced dramatic reductions in the price of Aids drugs in the developing
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Lottery fever in US 彩票乐透美国 Millions are trying their luck in seven states 七个州的几百万人准备碰一碰运气 Millions of people in the United States are scrambling for tickets to enter one of the world's biggest-ever lottery dr
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Universe may be proven flat 宇宙是平的 The Boomerang experiment balloon inflating just before launch 气球发射升空前在充气 A high-flying balloon which soared over Antarctica may have answered one of cosmology's greatest questions by rev
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