BEIJING, Sept. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton pleaded guilty（服罪） to cocaine possession and obstructing（妨碍） an officer in a Las Vegas court on Monday, according to media reports. Hilton, 29, admitted that cocaine fo...
Larry和李华正在一起吃午饭。李华今天要学两个常用语a Cuppa Joe和Guilty Pleasure。 LL: I am so sleepy! What I need right now, Li Hua, is a cuppa joe. LH: A cuppa joe ? 我确实有个朋友叫Joe，他怎么能帮你提神呢？...
A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk looks on as others sit on a protest outside the United Nation's office in Colombo, 7 July 2010 In Sri Lanka, there is continuing friction between the government and the United Nations over alleged human rights abuses during...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen eighty, President Rutherford Hayes completed four successful years in the White House. He did not want to serve another term. Hayes was a Republican. His party had...
Three men have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes flying from London to America with home-made liquid（液体） bombs. A Woolwich Crown Court jury convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Ass...
New York financier Bernard Madoff was jailed Thursday after pleading guilty to bilking investors out of an estimated $64.8 billion - the largest financial scam in U.S. history. Madoff now faces up to 150 years in prison. But investors who lost their...
Jurors in Australia's biggest terrorism trial found six Muslim men guilty of being members of an extremist group that plotted to wage what prosecutors called violent jihad in the city of Melbourne. Four other men have been acquitted of related charg...
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After months of arraignments and preliminary hearings in several cases, the first Guantanamo detainee to actually go on trial pleaded not guilty Monday as his case began in a make-shift courthouse not far from the detention center where he has been...
By Luis Ramirez Bangkok 01 June 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says more people will die if Burma's military government does not lift restrictions on relief aid soon. Mr. Gates spoke at an Asian security forum in Singapore, part of his tou...
