2016-04-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.A new study suggests you might be a better English speaker than the candidates running for president of the United States.Carnegie Mellon Univer

2016-04-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

United States officials say 21 people were arrested for their reported involvement in a plot to help foreign nationals stay in the country illegally.The program enabled over 1,000

2016-04-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

A 9-year-old reporter is defending her work after people in her small Pennsylvania town criticized her for covering a murder.They said Hilde Kate Lysiak should be “playing wi

2016-04-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Myanmar's parliament has created a new position for the head of the newly elected ruling party, Aung San Suu Kyi.Lawmakers voted Tuesday to establish the position of State Counsel

2016-04-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The United States sent two Libyans from its detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Senegal earlier this week.U.S. State Department officials called the move a “humanitar

2016-04-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says she is a candidate to become the first woman secretary-general of the United Nations.Clark is among eight candidates for the offi

2016-04-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Jaelyn Young seemed both excited and frightened about what her life would be like when she joined the Islamic State in Syria.Twenty-year-old Young is a former high-school cheerlead

2016-04-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Japanese yen has risen to its highest value in relation to the United States dollar in one and one half years.The yen is increasing in value on foreign exchange markets; yet Ja

2016-04-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

People opposed to the government exchanged gunfire with police in the Republic of Congo capital of Brazzaville Monday.A police station and a government building were attacked in th

2016-04-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.It may be the month of April, but Americans are still talking about March Madness.March Madness is the nickname for college basketball tournamen

2016-04-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

France’s national airline will allow female staff to volunteer for a new route to Iran rather than require them.Air France announced that female flight attendants must wear a

2016-04-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What's Trending Today.The area around the California city of San Francisco has some of the worst traffic in the United States.One of the main bridges that connects San Fra

2016-04-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

American women who work as computer programmers, chefs and dentists earn 28 percent less than men doing the same jobs. Those are the jobs with the biggest wage differences between

2016-04-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Security agencies trying to break up Islamic State (IS) terror cells in Europe fear that IS supporters will use guerrilla tactics to attack major targets.Concerns were raised when

2016-04-04 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Amnesty International says Turkey has been forcing about 100 refugees back to Syria every day since January.The rights group recently released a report that said many people in sou

2016-04-04 所属栏目:AS IT IS

U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping met this week over international security issues.While they report slow progress over major disagreements, what do aver

2016-04-04 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Russian-speaking militants are the second-largest group of foreigners fighting for the Islamic State militant group.Nearly 5,000 fighters from the Central Asian countries of Kazakh

2016-04-03 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Wild horses, oxen and reindeer are returning to Siberia for the first time in 10,000 years.Their new home is Pleistocene Park, a wilderness area on Russia’s Kolyma River.The

2016-04-02 所属栏目:AS IT IS

North Korea has jammed GPS signals in South Korea and launched another missile into the Sea of Japan.The action came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama met with leaders of Sou

2016-04-02 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Australia’s National Coral Bleaching Task force says the country’s Great Barrier Reef is facing the “worst mass bleaching event in its history.”The reef is

2016-04-02 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today…Friday was April Fools’ Day. Google’s search engine has become famous for its April Fools' tricks over the years.This year,

2016-04-01 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Some big news today here at VOA Learning English. We are adding new words to our 1,500-word Word Book.The first edition of the Word Book came out in 1962. Every now and then, we up

2016-04-01 所属栏目:AS IT IS

U.S. President Barack Obama opened his final nuclear security summit in Washington on Thursday, expressing concerns over North Korea's nuclear weapons development and the possibil

2016-04-01 所属栏目:AS IT IS

When the Islamic State militants blew up the Temple of Bel in the ancient city of Palmyra in August 2015, experts feared they would destroy many important artifacts from the first

2016-04-01 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today…The media-sharing application Instagram will soon have 60-second videos.Instagram announced its plan to have longer videos earlier this w