Every month new fitness products are hitting the market. The latest craze? Fitness shoes that claim to build muscles(肌肉). But do they work? Sports medicine expert Doctor Amadeus Mason says probably not. The main thing that makes one shoe better-off...
Authorities in northwestern Pakistan say that a suicide car bomber has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens others. Police say the attack occurred near the northwestern town of Kohat where a suicide bomber detonated（引爆） his explosive-fill...
Just like snails and porridge, fashion advisor at the TUC conference makes an uncomfortable combination（排列，组合）. But nestled somewhere between redundancy pay and spending cuts came stilettos, and the damage high heels cause to women's health. T...
Now, heres something you dont see every day: scientists cure color-blind monkeys. According to a report published online in the journal Nature, researchers have used gene therapy to allow color-blind squirrel monkeys to look at their fruit in a whol...
A new political party is taking power in Japan on Wednesday. The Democratic Party of Japan defeated the Liberal Democrats in the general election last month, making party leader Yukio Hatoyama the first prime minister from outside the LDP in nearly 1...
The United Nations reports the number of people affected by torrential rains and floods in West Africa has increased dramatically. The United Nations estimates（估计） 600,000 people have been affected and around 160 killed. Senegal, Burkina Faso, Gh...
[The] United States and five other world powers are calling on Iran to accept face-to-face nuclear talks, ahead of a key meeting of the UN General Assembly（大会） later this month. Several countries have made it clear that they'll be pushing for tou...
BBC Learning English6 Minute EnglishBFM International Film Festival6 Minute English ? Yvonne: Hello, I'm Yvonne Archer and this is '6 minute English' - and thanks toWilliam Kremer for joining me today. William: Hello it's a pleasure! Yvonne: For fif...
BBC Learning English6 Minute EnglishBangladesh snake bites NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Dima: Hi, welcome to this edition of 6 Minute English with me, Dima KostenkoKate: and me, Kate Colin. Hi. Dima: And today we're talking a...
Yvonne: Hello, Im Yvonne Archer and this is 6 minute English. And with me today is Callum Robertson. Hello Callum! Callum: Hello Yvonne. Yvonne: Now today's topic is about an extraordinary（特别的） document which has been keptsecret for more than t...
