日期：2011-12-24 Thai transsexual ladyboys are taking to the air as flight attendants for a new airline, a move that some said could be a key step towards still broader acceptance in a nation where they are already unusually visible. 泰国某航空公司将在某条新航线启用... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-24 传统的八小时工作制，可能很快成为例外而不是规则。新的证据显示，我们正在达到弹性工作制的临界点，一些企业看到了弹性工作制的过人之处，这打破了常规的朝九晚五的工作模式。 The traditional eight-hour workday may soon be the exception rather than the rule. N... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-24 为推广节能，智利近日推出新举措，呼吁男士解下领带，以减少空调用电。 It's the Chilean government's latest slogan: Welcome to Chile, take off your tie. But it's not an invitation to sit down and relax it's a call to save energy. As the summer kicks off... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-23 The United States has offered a reward of $10m (6.3m) for information leading to the arrest of a man they say is a key al-Qaeda facilitator and financier. 美国悬赏1000万美元征集能够逮捕某男子的线索，该男子据称是基地组织的推进者和资助人。 Yasin al-Su... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-23 Conjoined twins have been born in Brazil with two heads, two functioning brains and two backbones - but a single heart. 一对连体双胞胎在巴西出生，这对双胞胎有两个头、两个功能完全的大脑、两支脊柱，但是只有一个心脏。 Jesus and Emanuel share a heart Th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-23 Two strong earthquakes have rocked the New Zealand city of Christchurch, closing the airport and sending residents rushing from buildings. 两场强地震袭击了新西兰城市克莱斯特彻奇，致使机场关闭、民众纷纷冲出房屋。 The first 5.8 quake struck at 1358 lo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-21 The European Commission has imposed strict controls on the export of drugs used to carry out lethal injections. 欧盟委员会对用于注射处死犯人的药物出口进行严格控制。 EU firms wanting to export drugs such as the sedative（镇静剂） sodium thiopental wi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-20 The Taiwanese mobile-phone maker HTC has lost a US patent battle with Apple. 台湾移动电话生产商HTC输掉了与苹果的一场专利官司。 The International Trade Commission found that HTC infringed one patent held by the US technology giant. Any HTC phones tha... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-19 Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari has returned to Pakistan after receiving medical treatment in Dubai, officials say. 巴基斯坦总统阿西夫阿里扎尔达里在迪拜接受治疗之后已回国。 Mr Zardari's office said the president had been advised to rest He lan... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-19 At least 26 people have died in a cold wave sweeping through northern India, the country's state broadcaster Doordarshan News says. 印度国家广播电视台全印新闻称，席卷北部地区的寒潮造成至少26人死亡。 The majority of deaths have happened in the state... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-17 More than three-quarters of Americans would blow the whistle on wrongdoing at their workplace, according to a newly released survey -- but only if they could do so anonymously, without fear of reprisal, and -- and this is a big and -- there was a mo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-17 Bizarre footage has emerged of an apparent 'unidentified flying object' soaring above Moscow during a political protest. 一段奇异的视频显示，俄罗斯民众近日在莫斯科举行政治抗议活动时，天空惊现UFO，在抗议者头顶盘旋许久。 Bizarre footage has emerged of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-17 Trying to leave work at the office is proving to be a challenge for many British workers, with research revealing that heavy workloads, conflicts and bosses all make an appearance in dreams. 事实证明，不把工作带回家对许多英国职员来说是很难的事，有调... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-17 韩国某就业门户网站的最新民调显示，越来越多的公司职员对年终聚会感到厌倦。 Companies that are planning end-of-year parties or banquets（宴会） to promote team-building and give their employees a pat on the back for all their hard work in 2011 may want... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-17 最近，一家名为人文新学院（New College of the Humanities）的学校在伦敦成立，并向英国知识产权局（Intellectual Property Office）申请注册商标。为了避免在名称上的混淆，保护学院专有名称和品牌，牛津大学新学院也向知识产权局申请注册商标。 New College, Oxford... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-15 At least 102 people have died after consuming toxic alcohol in India's West Bengal state, police say. 印度警方称，孟加拉邦至少102人因喝下毒酒而死亡。 Residents of 12 villages in Sangrampur, Magrahat, Usthi and Mandirbazar areas in South 24 Parganas... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-15 Nearly 20% of women in the US are raped or suffer attempted rape at some point in their lives, a US study says. 美国一项调查显示，美国将近20%的女性在她们生命中的某一刻曾遭到强奸或者强奸未遂。 Even more women, estimated at 25%, have been attacked by... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-14 A collection of jewels owned by late actress Dame Elizabeth Taylor is being auctioned at Christie's in New York. 已故女演员、女爵士伊丽莎白泰勒的一件珠宝收藏品在纽约克里斯蒂被拍卖。 The La Peregrina necklace sold for nearly four times the expected p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-13 Doctors treating Brazil's former President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, for throat cancer, have described his progress as impressive. 巴西前总统路易斯伊纳西奥卢拉达席尔瓦的主治医生称，他的咽喉癌治疗效果显著。 Lula, 66, pictured with successor Dilma R... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-12-13 Canada's government has introduced a ban on the wearing of veils while swearing the oath of citizenship. 加拿大政府宣布禁止在公民宣誓的时候戴面纱。 Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney told a news conference in Montreal anyone wantin... 阅读全文>>