本期内容: TheFlemishtouristboardhasissuedacomplainttosocialmedianetworkFacebook,afteritremovedanumberofpostsfeaturingpaintingsbyFlemishartistPeterPaulRubensfornudity. Rubenswasoneofthemostinfluentialartistsofthe17thcentury,andwasfamousforhisBar

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本期内容: Social media companies are deliberately addicting users to their products for financial gain, Silicon Valley insiders have told the BBC's Panorama program. It's as if they're taking behavioral cocaine and just sprinkling it all over y

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本期内容: A celebrity Brazilian plastic surgeon known as Dr Bumbum has been arrested after four days on the run following the death of one of his patients. Police say Dr Denis Furtado was detained in Rio de Janeiro thanks to an anonymous tip. H

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本期内容: Skywatchers will be treated to the longest blood moon eclipse of the 21st Century on Friday. As it rises, during this total eclipse, Earth's natural satellite will turn a striking shade of red or ruddy brown. The totality period, when

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本期内容: A South Korean court has sentenced the 95-year-old founder of Lotte Group to four years in prison for embezzlement. Shin Kyuk-ho was indicted last year, along with three members of his family, on charges including tax evasion and frau

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本期内容: A report by Indonesian investigators into last Decembers crash of AirAsia Flight 8501, in which 162 people died, blamed failures of equipment and communication. The Airbus A320s rudder-control system malfunctioned; attempting a fix, t

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本期内容: As expected, the IMF added the yuan to the Special Drawing Right, its basket of reserve currencies. The Chinese currency will join the dollar, euro, pound and yen late next year. Meanwhile, in the foreign-exchange markets the dollar r

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本期内容: The New York Post reported that Americas Federal Trade Commission was planning to block the merger of Staples and Office Depot, the countrys only two national office-supplies chains. The deal, worth $6.3 billion, was announced in Febr

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本期内容: As investigators search for a motive behind the deadly rampage in San Bernardino, politicians are searching for a way to talk about it. The details of the California massacre at a holiday party point at a possible link to Islamic Mili

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本期内容: The global climate-change talks in Paris began with a stream of speeches, policy initiatives and behind-the-scenesdiplomacy. Franois Hollande linked the fight against terrorism (a world free of terror) to that against global warming (

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本期内容: Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britains opposition Labour Party, said his MPs would have a free vote on the extension of air raids on Islamic State to Syria. David Cameron, the prime minister, favours bombing; Mr Corbyn opposes it, but seve

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本期内容: Celebrating the birth of his first child, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, promised to put 99% of his shares in the company (worth around $45 billion at todays prices) into a charitable foundation. His lengthy letter

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本期内容: Pfizer,thedrugcompanybehindViagra,andAllergan,whichmakesBotox,agreedonMondaytocombineina$160billiondeal,thebiggestyetinthepharmaceuticalsindustry.AlthoughbothcompaniesconductmostoftheirbusinessinAmerica,thecomplexmergerwillenablePfize

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本期内容: Quick, Which of these menu items can be included in a typical Chinese meal? Egg Foo Young? Chicken Chow Mein? Hot and Sour Soup? None of the above. Your answer will probably depend on where you live in the world.Those inside China wou

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本期内容: Doctors in the National Health Service in England voted to strike over a new contract which will cut overtime payments for unsocial hours.The 37,000 junior doctors (many of them experienced) may now offer emergency care only on Decemb

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本期内容: Marriott International agreed to buy Starwood Hotels Resorts Worldwide for $12.2 billion in cash and shares. Starwood had reportedly been in talks with another suitor, Hyatt; Chinese hotel operators were also keen. The deal will creat

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本期内容: Japan returned to recession in the third quarter. GDP contracted at an annualised rate of 0.8%, more than economists had feared,having shrunk by 0.7% in the second. The recession is the second since Shinzo Abe became prime minister in

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本期内容: Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor of West Germany between1974 and 1982, died, aged 96. A pioneer of European and transatlantic co-operation, his brainy, abrasive style made enemies. The highly pragmatic Social Democrat once said that any

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本期内容: ChineseconsumerssmashedlastyearsrecordforpurchasesonSinglesDay,theworldsbiggestonline-shoppingfrenzy.Alibaba,ane-commercegiant,saidthat91.2billionyuanwasspentonitsvariouswebsites,two-thirdsofitfrommobiledevices.In2014shoppersforkedout

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本期内容: Rolls-Royces share price fell 20% yesterday after the British engineering company issued the latest of several recent profit warnings. Warren East, who became chief executive in July, blamed weaker demand for servicing wide-bodied air

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