日期：2010-12-16 Greek police have clashed with protesters in the capital Athens as unions stage a general strike against government austerity measures. 希腊首都雅典发生警察与游行示威者暴力冲突事件，此次游行由工会发起，抗议政府的财政紧缩措施。 Demonstrators threw pe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-16 The European Court of Human Rights is due to rule on whether the Irish Republic's anti-abortion laws violate women's human rights. 欧洲人权法庭将要对爱尔兰共和国的反流产法案是否侵犯妇女的人权做出裁决。 The case was brought to the Strasbourg-based co... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-15 Yahoo has confirmed that it is cutting its workforce by 4% or 600 people. 雅虎宣布将裁员600人，占其员工总数的4%。 Yahoo is struggling to turn around its fortunes The internet firm has now announced redundancies（冗陈） four times in three years, as... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-15 South African President Jacob Zuma is suing a cartoonist and a newspaper for a controversial drawing of him published two years ago. 南方总统雅各祖玛正在起诉一位漫画家和一家报社，该报社两年前曾刊登一副引起争议的祖玛漫画。 In the Sunday Times cartoon... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-15 The West African nation of Ghana is due to pump its first oil after the discovery of the offshore Jubilee Field three years ago. 西非国家加纳开始从朱比利油田抽取第一桶石油，据悉该近海油田早在三年之前就已经被发现。 Ghana's offshore oil fields are est... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-14 Prince William and Kate Middleton have released official photographs to mark their engagement, taken by celebrated fashion photographer Mario Testino. 英国威廉王子和准王妃凯特米德尔顿日前公布了由著名时尚摄影师马里奥泰斯蒂诺拍摄的官方订婚照。 The off... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-14 New York may be known as the city that never sleeps, but Tokyo business people get less time in the sack than their New York peers -- and also those in Paris, Stockholm and Shanghai. 尽管纽约号称不夜城，但是东京商务人士的睡眠时间比他们的纽约同行还要... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-14 It's official - Britons are the fattest people in Europe, a report found today. 今日发布的一项报告称，据官方统计，英国人是全欧洲最胖的人。 It appears that we have enjoyed one takeaway meal too many with a quarter of adults in the UK now termed as ob... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-12 With the festive season approaching, it is the kind of news likely to leave flustered housewives shaking their heads in disbelief. 在圣诞节临近之际，这种新闻可能会让忙乱的家庭主妇们摇头表示难以置信。 A third of men, it is reckoned（测算，估计） , wo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-12 近日，包括Facebook两位创始人在内的17位美国亿万富豪宣布将自己半数的资产捐给巴菲特和盖茨发起的慈善活动。至此，已有57位亿万富豪加入这个名为捐赠誓言的慈善活动。 Gates, his wife Melinda, and Buffett have asked U.S. billionaires to give away at least half... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-12 本周三，万事达卡、visa信用卡、瑞士银行以及前美国副总统候选人佩林等组织和个人的网站遭到黑客攻击，一个叫做匿名的黑客志愿者团体声称对此次行动负责，并表示受到攻击的组织和个人都曾经有过对维基解密网站及其创始人阿桑奇不利的行为和言论。 Hackers rushed to th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-12 美国乔治华盛顿大学近日宣布，该校所有学生可以自由选择宿舍室友，不再有性别限制，新生也不例外。这一政策在美国各大高校中开了先例，学生宿舍男女有别、禁止异性出入的日子将成为历史。 The long-eroding boundaries that once kept men and women apart on America'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-12 近日，美国北卡罗来纳州夏洛特市街头出现几名神秘的圣诞老人，他们在当地警员的陪同下来到那些需要帮助的家庭，送上100美元现钞作为圣诞礼物。 Secret Santas stamp $10,000 worth of $100 bills before heading out Friday morning to hand them out around Charlotte... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-10 Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall react as their car is attacked, in London, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. LONDON Furious student protesters attacked a car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, vandalized（毁坏，摧残） bui... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-08 UN peacekeepers were the most likely source of the cholera epidemic sweeping Haiti, according to a leaked report by a French disease expert. 一位法国疾病专家的一份被泄露的报告显示，联合国维和部队似乎是海地霍乱的传染源。 Many Haitians have long blame... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 At least 19 prisoners have escaped from a maximum security prison in Sierra Leone - apparently leaving through the front gates during the day. 塞拉利昂至少19名囚犯从一座高度设防监狱逃出似乎是在光天化日之下从大门离开。 The prisoners fired a pistol to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-07 Egypt's tourism ministry has called in experts from abroad to investigate a series of shark attacks off the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. 埃及旅游部邀请国外专家调查近期在红海旅游胜地沙姆沙伊赫会发生的一系列鲨鱼袭击事件。 A 70-year-old German wo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-06 Caning as a form of judicial punishment in Malaysia has reached epidemic proportions and should be banned, according to a human rights group. 一个人权组织表示，鞭笞作为一种司法惩罚手段在马来西亚已经达到了流行的程度，应当被禁止。 Blows administered t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-05 Englands humiliating defeat in the race to host the 2018 World Cup sparked a bitter new Cold War with Russia. 2018年世界杯主办国揭晓，英格兰的耻辱性惨败使其对赢家俄罗斯的态度如同新一轮冷战。 The 15million bid spearheaded（带头，先锋） by David Camer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-05 It used to be the tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages. 过去，妻子可能从衣领的唇印发现丈夫出轨。后来，泄密短信也成为诸多婚姻解体的导火索。 But now one in five divorces... 阅读全文>>