日期：2011-02-19 为获得英国威廉王子与准王妃凯特的王室婚礼请柬，一名19岁的墨西哥女孩竟然在英国驻墨西哥城大使馆前进行绝食抗议。 A Mexican teenager is staging（表演，展现） a hunger strike outside the British Embassy in Mexico City in a bid to secure an invitation to t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-19 情人节前夕，俄罗斯别尔哥罗德省的学校和机构接到通知，禁止他们举办任何形式的情人节庆祝活动，该省的很多夜店和商业机构也被禁止策划相关的商业活动。 Not everybody in Russia is in love with Valentine's Day. Authorities in Belgorod province are urging schoo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-19 法国总理和外长日前陷入北非国家免费度假丑闻，致使萨科奇政敌借机对其提出批评。为了避免类似事件，法国总统萨科齐要求内阁部长们在国内度假。 French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered his ministers to stay in France on holiday to avoid diplomatic gaffes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-19 一项新的全民运动挖洞比赛正在日本兴起，上周日，200多支参赛队伍和1000多名观众齐聚东京郊外的一个露营地，参加一年一度的全国挖洞比赛，获胜的队伍将获得金锹奖。 More than 1,000 avid fans descended on a camping site on the outskirts of Tokyo on Sunday, with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-18 Former Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali is seriously ill in a Saudi hospital, reports say. 报道称，突尼斯总统扎因阿比丁本阿里病情严重，在沙特一家医院中治疗。 The uprising ended Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's 23-year hold on power in Tunisia Mr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-17 Prince William and Kate Middleton will make their first official overseas trip as a married couple to Canada in late June, St James's Palace has said. 圣詹姆士宫宣布，威廉王子和凯特米德尔顿在六月底进行首次婚后海外旅行，出访加拿大。 Prince William an... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-17 A Somali man who pleaded guilty to piracy has been sentenced in the US to more than 33 years in prison. 一位索马里男子承认犯下海盗行为，被美国法庭判处33年有期徒刑。 Prosecutors described Muse as the pirates' ringleader Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse is the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-16 Japan has suspended its annual Antarctic whale hunt following protests from a campaign group. 因一个运动组织的抗议，日本暂停今年南极鲸鱼的捕捞活动。 Activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a US-based environmental group, have been chas... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-15 A court in Ecuador has fined US oil giant Chevron a $8.6bn (5.3bn) for polluting a large part of the country's Amazon region. 厄瓜多尔一家法庭处罚美国石油巨头雪佛龙86亿美元，因其污染了该国亚马逊河流域一大片土地。 The oil firm Texaco, which merged wi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-13 Voters in Switzerland are due to go to the polls in a referendum aimed at restricting gun ownership. 瑞士选民将要就限制枪支所有权问题进行全民公投。 Sport shooting is very popular in Switzerland If approved, it would end the long practice of Swiss me... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-11 An American teenager who took hostages in a botched bank robbery has been shot dead by police. 一位挟持人质抢劫银行的美国青少年被警察枪杀。 A witness said police snipers fired a volley of shots, killing the would-be robber Police in Cary, North Caro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-09 Shares in Toyota have jumped nearly 5% after a US inquiry into reports of unintended acceleration found no electronic flaws in the company's cars. 美国一家调查组发现丰田汽车意外加速问题不存在电气缺陷，丰田的股票随之上涨近5%。 Toyota stayed ahead of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-09 Every year around now, tens of thousands of DVDs of movies still playing in theaters are sent by Hollywood studios to Oscar, Golden Globe and other awards voters. 每年一到这个时侯，好莱坞电影公司会将数万张正在公映的电影光碟寄给奥斯卡、金球奖和其它奖... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-08 While Britain has a public holiday to celebrate Prince William's wedding, one company is taking the party one step further with souvenir condoms that urge lovers to lie back and think of England. 英国威廉王子婚期将至，除了当天被定为全民假日外，英国... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-08 德国莱比锡动物园证实，美国全国广播公司已经向该动物园的明星斗鸡眼负鼠海迪发出邀请，让海迪参加2月27日的奥斯卡颁奖典礼，在电视节目中担任嘉宾。 The animal from Germany became internationally renowned after photos were published of her this past December... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-01-31 Money and success are in store for Year of the Rabbit celebrities Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, but Depp is more likely to find scandal than happiness in romance, according to a Taiwanese fortune teller. 台湾的一位算命先生说，属兔名人安吉丽娜朱莉... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-01-31 The president of the first Thai airline to hire transsexuals as flight attendants on Thursday said he was a pioneer and predicted other carriers would follow his lead. 泰国一家航空公司首开先例，雇用变性人担任空服人员。该公司总裁本周四表示，他成为该... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-01-30 Paulita and Tony Flores took their wedding vows in December in an elegant rotunda with marble floors amid glimmering chandeliers and a bubbling fountain. 去年12月，宝莉塔和托尼弗洛雷斯在一家殡仪馆举办了婚礼。雅致的圆形大厅里铺着大理石地面，枝形吊灯... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-01-29 Families face being rationed to 80 bags of rubbish a year. Households throwing away more waste will have to take it to the tip or buy a limited number of extra bags. 英国家庭面临每年只能扔80袋垃圾的限令。扔的垃圾超过80袋的家庭得自己将多余的垃圾送到... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-01-29 耶鲁大学法学院华裔教授蔡美儿的新书《虎妈战歌》在被美国媒体摘录后，立即成为中西方媒体热议的话题，虎妈蔡美儿提出的中国式严苛教子方法也引发了巨大争议。 Amy Chua watches her daughter Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld practice playing piano in her home in New Haven,... 阅读全文>>