Filipino Nurses in Britain Find English Tests Too Difficult British hospitals are in serious need of more nurses like Filipino Jobie Escalona. But she has twice failed a required English language test. In the test, she was asked to write about the va...
US Officials Worry Condition Disabling Children May Be Spreading One morning last autumn, four-year-old Joey Wilcox did not feel right when he woke up. The boy had lost feeling on the left side of his face. It was the first sign of a much more seriou...
Almost a month has passed since Cyclone Idai hit southeastern Africa. The storm left over 1,000 people dead and many others missing. It caused heavy damage in parts of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. In the port of Beira, along Mozambiques coast, li...
Add Leonardo da Vinci to List of Famous Lefties In May, the world will mark 500 years since the death of Leonardo da Vinci. Art galleries and museums are preparing shows to honor the life and works of the artist they call Leonardo, who died in France...
A Virginia City Overcomes Dark Times with Basketball Win In the United States, a city known for racial tensions and violence welcomed home the national mens college basketball champions on Tuesday. 美国一个以种族关系紧张和种族暴力闻名...
Indiana Dunes Is Americas Newest National Park More than 3.5 million people visit a sandy, hilly area called Indiana Dunes each year. It sits along the shores of Lake Michigan, about 80 kilometers southeast of Chicago, Illinois. Visitors to the area...
The Trump administration announced this week that the head of the United States Secret Service is being replaced. The Secret Service says Randolph Tex Alles will leave office in May. The move appears to be part of leadership changes at several agenci...
Indian voters begin marking ballots this week in a general election that will continue over the next six weeks. The election will decide seats in Indias lower house of parliament. The winning party or coalition will choose Indias prime minister. Curr...
American English, like any other language, evolves and grows over time. To keep up with a changing language, Dictionary.com adds new words to its online search system each year. This week, the site announced 300 new additions for 2019. Here in the st...
Study Finds One in Four Worry about Losing Home, Property Property rights are not only about ownership of land. They provide reasons for people to invest in and develop their homes and communities. That is what Malcolm Childress says about the import...
Palm trees moved slowly as a light ocean breeze passed through Palm Beach, Florida last Saturday. That was the day a woman entered the grounds of U.S. President Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump has called the property his winter White House. Th...
US Aid Cuts to Central America May Backfire, Increase Migration North Aid groups have criticized the United States for its decision to cut assistance to three Central American nations. They warned this week that the decision is likely to backfire. Th...
Today on Ask a Teacher, we answer an email from a reader. He writes: Question: I would like to know the difference between the verbs laugh and smile. They look like the same, but I am not sure how to use them. Could you help me? - Vicente Answer: Hel...
And now, the second program in our series, A Princess of Mars. JOHN CARTER: The creature with the spear was huge. There were many other similar creatures. They had ridden behind me on the backs of large animals. Each of them carried a collection of s...
Yemeni doctor Mohammed Abdul-Mughni described the rising number of cholera cases he was treating as disastrous. Two weeks later, he also died of the disease. Yemen has been at war since 2015. The conflict has led to food shortages and put 10 million...
