Every year, workers put up a big, freshly cut evergreen tree in a historic building in Asbury Park, New Jersey to celebrate Christmas. The Grand Arcade at the Convention Hall rises above the town's boardwalk, a walking path along the Atlantic Ocean....
The word vaccine can bring out emotions and discussions in ways it never did before the start of the pandemic. In some countries, new variants are spreading as COVID-19 vaccines have yet to arrive. In others, shots are wasted as citizens fight agains...
The Israeli city of Tel Aviv is the world's costliest place to live, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) research group says. 经济学人信息部研究小组表示，以色列城市特拉维夫是全球生活成本最高的地方。 The EIU relea...
Music Show in Mexico Combines Sound and Silence A conductor in Mexico hopes to gain listeners through a new work in which a clown performs with musicians. Alondra de la Parra has led more than 100 large music groups, called orchestras. They include t...
Pillow fighting is moving out of the bedroom and into the boxing ring. The Pillow Fight Championship, or PFC, plans to hold its first live, pay-to-watch event in Florida on January 29. 枕头大战正在走出卧室，走进拳击场。枕头大战锦标...
Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from Shinji in Japan. Question: I am unsure about how to use imitate and pretend. For example, I see such sentences as, Does your child like pretend play? referring to acting like a superhero, f...
Some Asian Countries Have Highest Vaccination Rates When Cambodia first began offering COVID-19 vaccinations, people waited in long lines. But three months into its campaign, just 11 percent of Cambodia's population had received at least one vaccine...
Actor: I Didnt Pull the Trigger in Deadly Movie Incident Actor Alec Baldwin says he did not pull the trigger of a gun when it fired, killing a worker during the filming of a movie. I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them, Bal...
The U.S. and South Korea said on Thursday that they would update their plans to deter North Korea aggression. 美国和韩国周四表示，他们将更新阻止朝鲜侵略的计划。 North Korea's missile and weapons developments are increasingly...
Unique Effort Reopens Girls School in an Afghan Province High school girls are at staying home almost everywhere in Afghanistan because Taliban rulers will not permit them to go to school. There is, however, one exception. For weeks, girls in the wes...
