2017-04-17 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Well known businesses across the United States are facing hard decisions about keeping their stores open.Experts say Americans are changing the way they buy clothing and other prod

2017-04-17 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The non-profit Long Now Foundation works to solve problems like climate change, disease and the loss of languages.But it recently started an unusual project that could help support

2017-04-16 所属栏目:AS IT IS

You might think people all over the United States have wireless internet service and mobile phones. But there is no such service in Green Bank, West Virginia, a tiny town four hour

2017-04-16 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Researchers are now reporting a link between the weather event known as El Niño and an increase in cholera cases in eastern Africa.This means that knowing when there is goin

2017-04-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Facebook is removing the accounts of people who use its social media program to send out “fake news” stories.Facebook’s security team said it found people who use

2017-04-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Christians in Egypt are asking the government for better security after two recent bombings killed dozens at two churches.Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the bom

2017-04-14 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The U.S. Defense Department says its military plane dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used in combat, a 10,000-kilogram bomb, on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan.The

2017-04-14 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Brazilian city of Petropolis is known for its 19th century buildings and its Imperial Museum. The museum includes the summer home of Brazil's last ruler, Dom Pedro II.But many

2017-04-14 所属栏目:AS IT IS

If you are a refugee, Uganda may be one of the better places to live.The country’s refugee policy is considered one of the most progressive in the world.Newcomers are permitt

2017-04-14 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.Arturo Di Modica is an Italian-American artist. In 1989, he created a bronze sculpture known as “Charging Bull.” That year, just bef

2017-04-13 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The high-speed transportation system called Hyperloop is getting attention all over the world.Last week, groups from the United States presented proposals for Hyperloop projects at

2017-04-13 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Trump administration has agreed to sell Nigeria up to twelve attack airplanes for its campaign against Boko Haram Islamic extremists.The sale will continue despite concerns ove

2017-04-13 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.Britain’s star DJ Paul Oakenfold traveled to the base of Mount Everest to perform at the “highest party on earth.”Oakenfold tr

2017-04-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has traveled to Moscow in an effort to persuade Russia to end support for Syrian leader Bashar al Assad.Tillerson’s trip follows the dea

2017-04-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Somalia’s ambassador to the United States says his embassy has learned that U.S. immigration officers plan to deport about 4,000 Somali nationals.Ahmed Isse Awad is the Somal

2017-04-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.Airline passengers around the world were upset when videos of a man being dragged off a United Airlines flight came out on Sunday night. The vid

2017-04-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Egyptian Christians were burying their dead on Monday after suicide attacks that killed at least 45 people at two Coptic Christian churches in two cities.Dozens more were wounded i

2017-04-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The U.S. government has ended its effort to force Twitter to identify who is behind an account critical of President Donald Trump.After the announcement, Twitter said it has cancel

2017-04-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.Many sports fans got to know Sergio Garcia of Spain in 1999. He was just 19 years old when he made one of the most memorable shots of that year&

2017-04-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Too often young Somali-Americans have made news for all the wrong reasons.Some young people have fallen victim to drug abuse or the appeal of gang violence. Others have turned to e

2017-04-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The fifth-tallest building in the world, the Lotte World Tower, has opened in Seoul, South Korea.The event was celebrated in a ceremony with a fireworks display that lit up the bui

2017-04-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Roland Despeines looks for shelter inside a mountain cave when heavy rains fall in southwestern Haiti.Despeines and many other Haitians have been taking shelter from storms in the

2017-04-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The United States-based group Freedom House says democracy dropped in more than half of the countries it studied last year.Freedom House rated the health of democracy in 29 countri

2017-04-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The number of tourists visiting Cambodia's genocide sites has more than tripled over the last 10 years. They are visiting memorials for the nearly 2 million people killed under Po

2017-04-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

In less than two weeks, Turkish voters will decide whether to extend the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The constitutional referendum is set for April 16.Public opinion s