日期：2012-12-14 The US president leads it, of course, and then there's the Pope, and Angela Merkel, and Facebook's founder, and other global rainmakers on Forbes' ranking of the world's most powerful people. 在福布斯杂志评出的全球最具权势人物榜上，奥巴马毫无疑问地... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-13 Google has released a native version of its Maps app for the iPhone. 谷歌发布本土版iPhone地图程序。 It follows Apple's switch to its own map software which stopped Google powering the handset's default app. The move was widely criticised after numer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-12 Women who are light smokers - including those who smoke just one cigarette a day - double their chance of sudden death, a large study suggests. 一项大型研究显示，轻度女烟民（包括每天只吸一根）猝死的几率要翻倍。 The research tracked the health of 101... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-11 One of the world's most rare and elusive cats, the Sunda clouded leopard of Malaysia, has been filmed up close. 世界上最珍惜、最罕见的一种猫科动物，马来西亚巽达云豹被近距离拍摄到。 A biologist holidaying in Malaysia has captured unique footage of a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-11 South Africa has signed a deal with Vietnam to help curb the rising number of illegally slaughtered rhinos, officials announced on Monday. 南非与越南签署了一项遏制非法猎杀犀牛的协议。 At least 618 rhinos have been poached in South Africa in 2012, ne... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-08 Nearly one in five degree courses has been scrapped since the tripling of tuition fees to 9,000-a-year, it has been revealed. 据透露，自从英国大学学费上涨到原来的三倍，达到一年9000英镑，已有近五分之一的学位课程被削减掉。 Universities are concentrati... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-08 Overall, Vienna retains the top spot as the city with the world's best quality of living, also keeping its first place ranking, said the survey released on Tuesday. Baghdad was last out 221 cities. 从总体来看，维也纳仍旧蝉联全球最宜居城市。这份榜单... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-08 Australia's iconic Opera House and Harbour Bridge are set to be joined by a new landmark after a council approved a 330 million, 15-hectare Chinese-themed park including a full-sized replica of the gates to Beijing's Forbidden City. 继悉尼歌剧院和海... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-08 It's not men who spend their time secretly ogling women - it's women, according to a revealing new study. 一项新研究惊人地揭露说，总爱偷瞄女人的并不是男人而是女人。 And it is the fairer sex that gives their rivals' bodies a good visual once-over, fo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-08 法国里昂一名37岁的男子日前用妻子的姓氏取代了自己原来的姓，成为法国第一位随妻姓的丈夫。 A husband from Lyon has become the first man in France to take his wife's surname under a new gender equality law. But the 37-year-old, who married in September,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-07 Drones could soon be helping protect rhinos, tigers and elephants in Africa and Asia, thanks to cash from Google. 得益于谷歌的资金援助，无人机很快将用于保护非洲与亚洲的犀牛、老虎和大象。 Controlled via a tablet computer, the small autonomous aircraf... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-05 Palaeontologists have found what is likely to be the oldest known dinosaur, filling in a yawning evolutionary gap. 古生物学家发现了一种可能是最古老的已知恐龙品种，填补了进化史上的巨大空白。 Nyasasaurus parringtoni would have shared the land with sil... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-03 Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013, and the US is just 16th. 瑞士是2013年世界上的最佳出生地，而美国只排在第16位。 A new study produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit says American babies will have a dimmer future than... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-03 Employers are more likely to hire people they fancy, researchers claim, as they find leisure pursuits, background and self-presentation are more important than skills. 研究人员称，雇主更倾向于雇佣自己喜欢的员工，因为他们觉得消遣方式、社会背景以及自... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-12-03 The UK's education system is ranked sixth best in the developed world, according to a global league table published by education firm Pearson. The first and second places are taken by Finland and South Korea. 根据培生教育公司公布的全球教育排行榜，英... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-29 Dutch authorities have decided to approve a motion abandoning a law under which it is a crime to insult God. 荷兰当局决定通过废弃侮辱上帝是一项罪名的提议。 A majority of parties in parliament said the blasphemy（亵渎神明） law was no longer relevant... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-25 美国南加州大学的研究人员发现，居住在空气污染严重地区的老年人大脑要比实际年龄老三岁，因其大脑认知功能受到空气质量影响衰退更快。这项针对超过1.4万50岁以上人群进行的研究发现，空气污染对大脑健康及其功能都有负面影响。 Elderly people living in areas of hig... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-23 Footprints believed to have been made by the giant bird Diatryma indicate that it was a gentle herbivore and not a fierce carnivore, scientists say. 科学家称，巨型不飞鸟留下的脚印显示这种鸟是温和的食草动物，并非凶残的食肉动物。 The giant flightless... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-23 Mexican President Felipe Calderon has sent a bill to congress to change the official name of the country. 墨西哥总统费利佩卡尔德龙向国会递交了一份更改国家名称的草案。 The United States of Mexico is known around the world as Mexico The current name,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-21 Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record high in 2011, the World Meteorological Organization has said. 世界气象组织称，2011年大气中的温室气体含量达到一个新纪录。 In its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin released on Tuesday, the organisation... 阅读全文>>