日期：2008-12-19 Tourism campaigns featuring bikini-clad models and images of the outback as in the new epic movie Australia have helped Australia win the title of world's top country brand for the third consecutive year. An annual country branding index designed to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 Stress caused by a slowing economy, shrinking retirement accounts and rising unemployment rates is driving some American smokers to increase the habit or delay quitting, according to a new survey. A quarter of smokers who are worried about the econo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 America's future first lady Michelle Obama's fashion choices All ears were listening to President-elect Barack Obama's victory speech this week but fashion-watchers were looking closely at his wife Michelle's dress -- and the verdict was not so good... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 President-elect Barack Obama Friday admitted he faced a monumental challenge after promising his daughters Sasha, seven, and Malia, 10 a dog after the campaign, saying some of the pooches the first family-to-be were considering were mutts like me. W... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 A council has become the first in London to rule that smokers will no longer be able to foster children. Redbridge Council's cabinet agreed Tuesday night to a ban on placing children with foster carers who smoke unless there are exceptional circumst... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 Thousands of gay rights supporters took to the streets of Hollywood late Wednesday outraged that California had voted to ban same-sex marriages. The historic presidential win of Barack Obama, who promises to be far more socially liberal than his pre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 Never mind the credit crunch, if you're feeling sick then don't come to work, with employees in the banking sector particularly reluctant to stay at home, British bosses say. Almost three-quarters of employers said staff should stay at home if they... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 Barack Obama told millions watching him accept the Democratic nomination in Denver that his grandmother's influence on who he is and the way he views the world was substantial. She's the one who taught me about hard work, he said in August. She's th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 Exposure to some forms of entertainment is a corrupting influence on children, leading teens who watch sexy programs into early pregnancies and children who play violent video games to adopt aggressive behavior, researchers said on Monday. The resea... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 A dreaded major earthquake in Tokyo would set off a crisis of toilet refugees, with a restroom shortage for nearly 820,000 people, a government study said. An expert panel of the government's Central Disaster Prevention Council came to the conclusio... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 Whether you love or hate your company's annual holiday office party, it may not even happen this year. As a financial crisis roils world markets and fears of a deep global recession grow, about one-fifth of U.S. businesses are saying 'no' to end-of-... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 Mexican Manuel Uribe the world's fattest man in the 2007 Guinness Book of Records, on Sunday married his friend's widow in a televised ceremony the US Discovery Channel dubbed My Big Fat Mexican Wedding. Mexican Manuel Uribe, the world's fattest man... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 US suicide rates appear to be on the rise, driven mostly by middle-aged white women, researchers reported on Tuesday. They found a disturbing increase in suicides between 1999 and 2005 and said the pattern had changed in an unmistakable way. The ove... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 Wearing a collar containing satellite-guided positioning equipment Putin's dog Koni walks ahead of his owner, now Russia's Prime Minister, right, in Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. Russia's satellite navigat... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-19 美国研究人员近日发布了一份美国自然灾害死亡地图，显示高温比地震、山火、飓风等更易致人死亡。美国南卡罗来纳大学研究人员调查了全美1970年至2004年期间自然灾害致人死亡的相关案例，按照各种灾害对人的威胁程度制成这份死亡地图。在自然灾害导致死亡的人中，19．6％... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-13 世界卫生组织于本周二发布的一份报告称，到2010年，癌症致死率将超过心脏病，成为全球头号杀手；而到2030年，全球可能将有2700万人患癌，其中1700万人将因此死亡。该报告表示中国和印度等发展中国家烟民数量增加是造成癌症患者与日俱增的一个主要原因。 Cancer will ov... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-11 不少人关心中国的西藏问题。在他们的头脑里，总闪烁着一个带着东方神秘主义色彩的，朦胧、理想的香格里拉。历史确凿地记载着，旧西藏并不是一些人想象的香格里拉。1950年全西藏有100万人，其中90万人没有住房，拉萨城区只有2万人，露宿街头的贫民和乞丐就达1000多人。... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-07 Short of gift ideas for that person who really does have everything? Then how about an underwear repair kit or maybe a Barack Obama Yes, We Can can opener? Website Stupid.com, which claims finding a truly stupid gift is an art form, on Tuesday unvei... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-07 The Japanese government has urged the nation to eat more rice in a new drive to boost the nation's self-sufficiency. Once the most important ingredient in every Japanese meal, the average amount of rice eaten each day has shrunk by more than 50 per... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-12-07 Italians are considered the most handsome men in the world while men who are balding and aging do not necessarily lose their looks, according to an international survey on what makes men attractive. A Male Beauty survey of nearly 10,000 men and wome... 阅读全文>>