日期：2012-03-31 Spain's high-class escorts are refusing to have sex with the nation's bankers - until they open up credit lines to cash-strapped families and firms. 西班牙高级妓女日前掀起性罢工，拒绝为该国银行家提供服务，直到他们为陷入经济困境的家庭和公司提供更多贷... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-31 It turns out that nodding off in class may not be such a bad idea after all, as a new study has shown that going to sleep shortly after learning new material is the best way to remember it. 看来在课堂上打瞌睡也许并不是坏事。一项新研究显示，学完新知... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-31 Teenagers will be told to 'stand up for their elders' on public transport or risk losing their right to free travel. 英国伦敦近日出台新规，要求青少年乘坐公共交通时主动给老人让座，否则会失去免费乘坐公交车的待遇。 London Mayor Boris Johnson will unvei... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-31 New York, where the average cost of a wedding is $65,824, is the most expensive city in the United States to get married but many couples will spend about $27,000 to tie the knot and that doesn't include the cost of the honeymoon. 最新调查显示，2011... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-31 In what appears to be the first reported case of its kind on US shores, a Colorado woman alleges that her iPhone 4 caught fire while charging overnight and wants Apple to warn customers of the device's possible combustion issues. 美国科罗拉多州一位... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-31 奥地利一名男子为了能够继续申领失业救济金，竟然用电锯锯下自己的左脚。 It sounds like the plot of a boring Saw film, but it's apparently all-too-real. An unemployed Austrian man cut off his own foot with a mitre saw（横切锯） so he could continue rece... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-30 A university in Hungary has stripped President Pal Schmitt of his doctorate after it found that large parts of his thesis were plagiarised. 匈牙利一所大学发现总统帕尔施密特的论文中有大面积的抄袭痕迹，遂取消了他的博士学位。 Budapest's Semmelweis Univ... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-30 Italians have been left shocked by two cases of men setting themselves on fire in the past two days in protest at their financial hardship. 两名意大利男子在过去的两天中因对自身经济困难不满而点火自焚，这两起事件震惊了意大利人。 A 58-year-old builder... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-29 Japan has hanged three death row inmates in its first executions since July 2010. 2010年七月以来，日本首次将三名囚犯执行绞刑。 Japan did not carry out any executions in 2011 Reports said the unnamed prisoners, hanged in separate prisons, had all bee... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-29 Spanish unions are holding a general strike to protest against labour reforms which the new government hopes will help cut unemployment. 西班牙工会正在发动一场大罢工来抗议劳动力改革，新政府希望通过此次改革减少失业率。 Road, rail and air transport ar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-29 Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he has located the long-submerged F-1 engines that blasted the Apollo 11 Moon mission into space. 亚马逊创始人杰夫贝索斯称，他找到了长久以来沉入水底的、将阿波罗11号月亮探测器送入太空的火箭发动机F-1。 Although some F-1... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-26 When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password. 当贾斯汀巴西特参加求职面试时，他... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-26 Young people looking for a job with good pay, flexible hours and job security should consider working in health care, according to a list of the top 15 best jobs in the US for young people. 根据美国最新出炉的对年轻人来说最佳工作前15名的名单，那些希... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-26 If you are thirty-plus and a woman with a masters degree in South Korea, you may need the help of a matchmaker to find love -- and your worried mother may even end up doing the legwork for you. 如果你是一个三十多岁的韩国女硕士，那么你可能需要媒人的... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-26 It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the US experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad. 上世纪经济大萧条时期，美国深陷其... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-24 Companies around the globe have work to do to improve worker satisfaction because three in 10 employees say their workplace is not psychologically safe and healthy, according to a new poll. 根据一项新调查，全球的公司在改进员工满意度方面还任重而道远... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-24 Chemicals, heavy metals, bacteria, and other hazardous ingredients are turning up in makeup, skin creams, and hair styling products. 《福布斯》杂志近日提醒，有些化妆品、护肤霜、美发产品中含有化学物质、重金属、细菌等危险成分。 Here, the latest and mo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-24 In a move aimed at helping newspapers generate new revenue from struggling online operations, the German government intends to require search engines and other Internet companies to pay publishers whose content they highlight. 为了帮助萎靡不振的网上... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-24 A plan by the University of California to allow incoming students to declare their sexual orientation is winning praise from gay advocates, but critics charge it will create another class slated for preferential treatment. 美国加州大学将允许申请学生... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-03-24 上周五，美国佛罗里达州一家律师事务所的14名员工因同时穿着橙色衬衫而被解雇，公司老板认为他们集体穿同样颜色的衣服是对公司管理层的抗议行为。 They weren't wearing sagging pants or revealing（坦胸漏肩的） clothing. But dressing in an orange shirt is appar... 阅读全文>>