Earthquake Jolts Tokyo from bed An earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale shook the Tokyo area before dawn, jolting many residents out of bed and causing minor injuries to at least 19 people. The quake registered at 4:46 am with the epicenter...
Los Angeles Times Wins Pulitzer Prize Honors 2005普利策奖 《洛杉矶时报》再度胜出 The Los Angeles Times won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday for a series of articles exposing deadly medical problems and racial injust...
Forbes' list has new names; Gates No. 12005年福布斯富豪榜又有新变动，比尔盖茨仍旧稳居榜首 Thanks to a surge in demand for steel, the Internet and Scandinavian sofas, there are some new names among the very richest of the world'...
12-year-old expert brings top encyclopaedia to book A Schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest - the fifteenth - edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Lucian George, 12, a pupil at...
a great friendship 伟大的友谊_英语故事 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776.Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From...
Germany Reclaims Einstein as Their Hero 德国重封爱因斯坦为国家英雄 Germany reclaims Einstein as their hero Germany reclaims Einstein as their hero Suffering from an acute lack of heroes after losing two world wars, Germany has reclaimed...
The Life of the Greatest Comedy Artist -- Charlie Chaplin To a failure, hardship is an excuse；To a success, hardship is great fortune. Stagestruck Charlie Chaplin plodding all the way. Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. Her fathe...
Napoleon 'tried to learn English' 拿破仑流放期间曾热衷于学习英语 Napoleon Bonaparte was keen to learn English while in exile, documents shown in Britain for the first time reveal. The deposed French emperor apparently wanted to learn t...
Living History-希拉里回忆心路历程《亲历历史》一路畅销 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says that she's still not quite sure why her memoirs, Living History, sold so well. In a four-page afterword to the paperback edition, which comes ou...
President Putin dresses up to play war games 俄总统普京戎装上阵体验远程轰炸和导弹发射 Russian President Vladimir Putin sits inside the Tupolev-160 strategic bomber jet at the Moscow's Chkalovsky military airport (AFP) President Vl...
