以色列在东耶城建新房遭批评 The governments of Europe and the United States have criticized Israel for announcing it will build 2,600 new housing units in a sensitive part of East Jerusalem. They believe it hinders efforts to secure a pea...
新科技：没有电的地方也可灯火通明 This year's Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to inventors of the light emitting diode, commonly known by the acronym LED, now being used around the world. However, according to the International Ene...
美国新埃博拉病例加深恐慌 U.S. health officials are scrambling to respond to a new Ebola case - that of a nurse in Dallas, Texas, who cared for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week. Americas medical community is reviewing a...
埃博拉生与死：利比里亚医院为产妇重开 JFK Hospital, one of Liberias largest and oldest medical facilities, had to close temporarily in July, following the deaths of two leading doctors from Ebola. It is now getting back on its feet,...
韩国正视军营暴力现象 It is the moment that Kwak Byoung-ho knew would eventually come. The 21-year-old conscript says good-bye to his mother and grandmother just ahead of his induction into South Koreas armed forces. 21岁的郭秉浩（译音...
美国等国举行地震救灾演习 People around the United States and in dozens of other countries took part last week in an earthquake drill called the Great ShakeOut, an event that teaches them what to do when a real earthquake strikes. 美国等数...
土耳其边境城市聚集大批科巴尼难民 The fighting in Kobani, northern Syria, has forced some 200,000 residents to flee into southeastern Turkey. Residents in nearby towns in Turkey are trying to accommodate them but are worried about the...
科巴尼学生讲述被绑架经历 During their offensive across northern Syria, Islamic State militants in June kidnapped more than 150 mostly Kurdish students from the city of Kobani. The group released most of them several months later but kept...
韩国努力回收电子垃圾 South Korea is coping with increasing amounts of garbage from electronic devices, also called e-waste. To prevent tons of old computers, smartphones and appliances from ending up in landfills, leaking toxic chemicals, s...
现代科技提升天气预报精准度 Severe storms that cause heavy damage throughout the world are a reminder of how important it is to be able to predict the weather. A meteorological exhibition in Brussels earlier this month featured the latest...
被伊斯兰国掳获的妇女儿童命运凄惨 The Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has captured hundreds of women and girls over the last few months. The very few who have been able to escape tell stories of rape, forced m...
美国火箭爆炸，私营航天产业的挫折 Wednesday's successful launch of a Russian space vehicle taking supplies to the International Space Station was in sharp contrast to the explosion of a private U.S. cargo space craft shortly after it's...
美联储结束量化宽松但维持低利率 The U.S. Federal Reserve says it is ending its bond-buying program this week, but it assured investors that short-term interest rates would remain near zero for some time. 美联储表示，本周停止被称...
