A 17-year-old Brisbane girl has fallen to her death from a hotel balcony during schoolie celebrations on the Gold Coast. Police were called on to the Chevron Renaissance Hotel in Surfers' Paradise where her body was found on the pool deck. Prime Mini

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Another NATO service members been killed in Afghanistan, and news reports are saying it was an American. Authorities say two others were wounded when two gunmen wearing Afghan National Army uniforms turned on NATO troops. More than 25 coalition servi

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全球基金和大企业合作对抗艾滋病 As donor countries tighten budgets to reduce debt, organizations like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are feeling the effects. The fund announced last November it would not make any new gran

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Time again for StoryCorps, this oral history project collects interviews between everyday people talking about their lives. Today, a husband and a wife remember how they met. He was from Slovakia, she was from Wisconsin. A job brought them together.

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今天我们要学的词是 gambit. gambit 是指精心策划的一步棋,特别是带有风险的策略。$150 million in aid to El Salvador marks China's latest gambit to make inroads in Central America. 中国向萨尔瓦多提供1.5亿美元援助

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A group of three oil companies led by the American company Chevron have announced the discovery of a new oil field in the Gulf of Mexico, about 270 miles south of New Orleans. The new field may have between 3 and 15 billion barrels of oil. The resul

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1. President Barack Obama toured the white sand beaches of the Florida Panhandle Tuesday, vowing to fight the oil spill with (quote) everything we got. The president spoke in Pensacola to wrap up a two-day visit to the Gulf Coast before returning to

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1. Detectives say Wade Michael Page, the gunman who opened fire at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin Sunday, was active in the white supremacist music scene. He also used the internet to urge others to turn beliefs into action by posting messages on website

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President Barack Obama and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Florida, 15 Jun 2010 President Barack Obama will address the American people from the Oval Office at 0000 GMT. The president's speech will focus mostly

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Australia has approved a huge natural gas project to be built on a nature reserve off its west coast. The $42 billion development will supply gas to China and India but environmentalists condemn it as irresponsible. The development on Barrow Island

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. We have a pope. The announcement this past hour at the Vatican. He is Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina. The 76-year-old, who is the first pontiff from the Americas has chosen the name Pope Fr

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May 15th, 1972. Alabama governor George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Maryland. The shooting leaves Wallace paralysed for the rest of his life. In later years, he apologizes for his o

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Alabama governor George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Maryland. The shooting leaves Wallace paralyzed for the rest of his life. In later year, he apologizes for his one-time segregati

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May 15th, 1972. Alabama governor George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Maryland. The shooting leaves Wallace paralyzed for the rest of his life. In later year, he apologizes for his on

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May 15th, 1972. Alabama governor George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination in Maryland. The shooting leaves Wallace paralyzed for the rest of his life. In later year, he apologizes for his on

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By Barry Wood Washington 11 October 2007 Last March, the leaders of Russia, Bulgaria and Greece signed an agreement to build a $1 billion pipeline to bypass the Bosporus and carry Russian and Central Asian oil directly to the Mediterranean at the Gre

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Bagdad 巴格达 Baghlan province,阿富汗一省名 Bahrein*巴林(国家名) Baikonur space launch center,Baikonur宇航发射中心(在哈萨克斯坦) Bamiong province Bangkok,曼谷(泰

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Abbas Khalaf ,伊拉克驻俄大使 Abdelaziz Bouteflika 阿尔及利亚总统 Abdel-Razzak al-Yahya, 巴勒斯坦内务部长 Abdullah,阿布杜拉(人名) Abdul Qadir,阿富汗副总统 Abuja,阿布

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Good morning everyone. Adani Group proposed Carmichael coal mine has been given final environmental approval by the Queensland government. Now that, the mine, which would become the biggest in the world, has been given the green light with 140 condit

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今天聊聊时尚英语!条纹、格子、圆点,各种花样、图案英语怎么说?听Jenny和Adam分享吧! 关键词: Prints and patterns:花样、图案 Prints: 印花、花样,不一定有规律 Patterns: 有规律的印花、图案

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