There is a wonderful fable about a young orphan girl who had no family and no one to love her. One day, feeling exceptionally sad and lonely, she was walking through a meadow when she noticed a small butterfly caught unmercifully in a thornbush. The

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 感悟人生

Malcolm Turnbull's Liberal leadership is in disarray after a mass exodus of MPs from frontbench and whip positions. Their rebellion is expected to cost Mr. Turnbull the leadership at a meeting on Monday. Joe Hockey is understood to be a candidate, bu

发表于:2018-12-11 / 阅读(90) / 评论(0) 分类 澳洲ABC新闻快递2009年

1. A surgeon who contracted Ebola died on Monday. He has been cared for at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Doctors say the 44-year-old was in extremely critical condition when he arrived at the Hospital over the weekend. He contracted the

发表于:2018-12-15 / 阅读(85) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2014(十一)月

1. A mudslide Washington State killed at least three people and destroyed as many as thirty homes. 18 people are unaccounted for. 2. Officials say a barge that leaked oil into Galveston Bay has been move out of the Houston Ship Channel and all the re

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Aid Worker Kidnapped in Darfur Returns Home After almost three months in captivity, British aid worker Patrick Noonan is going home. Hes very much looking forward to seeing his two daughters, says Bettina Luescher, a World Food Program spokesperson.

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(六月)

We begin, though, in west Cleveland, where exactly one week ago tonight, a nightmare ended for three missing women. And tonight we have a video showing part of that rescue. The cell phone video shows police rushing into the house at 2207 Seymour Aven

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Tonight, the frankly unbelievable words from a man who says he's not a monster and the proud, brave words from one of the three women to whom he was precisely that, a captor, a torturer, a rapist, a killer, in short a monster. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJe

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Stories of survival and acts of desperation in a country of reeling from natural disaster. An official from one relief organization described the situation in the Philippines as hideous. First, we bring you some perspectives on this. This gives you a

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AZUZ: Now, we're explaining a $5 million effort to save what's believed to be the most endangered marine mammal in the world and this is that animal. It's called a vaquita porpoise. Scientists estimate that there are fewer than 30 of these animals le

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Hopes are fading that lonesome George, a unique giant Galpagos tortoise, will become a father. George lives in the Galpagos National Park in Ecuador and is believed to be the last living member of its species. Conservationists are anxious to ensure h

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C: He has nightmares. Where he repeatedly begs someone to kill him, in Arabic. Hes too ashamed or scared or both to face the press outside his house or to take calls from the TV news, so what does he do? He finds shelter in the corner of the bedroom,

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By Brian Wagner Miami 10 January 2008 Colombia's government has approved a new attempt by Venezuela to pick up two hostages held by leftist rebels in the Colombian jungle. VOA's Brian Wagner reports Venezuela's president says he has received instruct

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British police have rescued three women held against their will in a London house for 30 years. The women are from Britain, Ireland and Malaysia and are aged between 30 and 69. Police say the British women appears to have spent most of her life in ca

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The tiny northern corroboree frog of Australia is only just hanging on. Populations of both the northern and southern corroboree frogs have declined catastrophically in the wild over the last two decades. The primary culprit is the deadly chytrid fun

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1. Chinese President Xi Jinping is hosting the Pacific regions economical leaders this week. The gathering of the Asia-Pacific Economical Cooperation leaders is scheduled for tomorrow and Tuesday. President Obama will attend. 2. In Berlin, European l

发表于:2019-02-11 / 阅读(105) / 评论(0) 分类 美联社新闻一分钟2014(十一)月

Said Ali al-Shihri, deputy chief of al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen in a 2009 file photo taken from undated video posted on a militant-leaning Web site, and provided by the SITE Intelligence Group A Yemen-based al-Qaida group is calling for regional coo

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By Cathy Majtenyi Central Somalia 17 October 2009 Somali children in the drought area Like the rest of eastern Africa, central Somalia is in the grips of a debilitating drought. As a result, more than half of the population is in need of emergency f

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A British hostage has been released alive and well in Iraq after more than two years in captivity. The news was announced by Britain's foreign minister in London. 一名被绑架超过两年的英国人质日前平安从伊拉克获释。英国外交大

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This Tuesday is marking China's third Space Day. To mark the occasion, Lunar Palace 1, a bioregenerative life support system at Beihang University in Beijing, opened to the public during the weekend. Our reporter XYee has more. A main goal of Lunar P

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When you've been to the zoo have you noticed how some of the animals pace around a lot? In this Moment of Science Don and Ya?l discuss one explanation for this behavior. D: Ya?l, I went to the zoo yesterday, and boy, the polar bear just kept pacing i

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