2016-10-25 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The United Nations estimates that 200 million girls and women in more than 30 countries are victims of female genital mutilation (FGM).U.N. officials say Somalia has the highest ra

2016-10-25 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Drone aircraft are now being used to transport blood, medicine and supplies in southern Africa.Zipline International recently began flying its drones to remote medical centers acro

2016-10-25 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What's Trending Today...Major League Baseball’s World Series begins Tuesday night.The Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians will play Game One of the series in Clevelan

2016-10-24 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Houston, Texas has the largest community of Vietnamese in the United States outside of California.Only a few hundred Vietnamese were living in Houston in 1975, at the end of the Vi

2016-10-24 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Immigration has been, and continues to be, a major issue in the United States.Immigration has been angrily debated during the 2016 presidential election campaign. It also is import

2016-10-23 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Some Facebook users can now order food and buy tickets on the social media site.The new service launched in the United States this week. Facebook designed it as a new way to connec

2016-10-23 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Sanskrit poem “The Mahabharata” is considered the longest work in world literature.The 200,000-line poem tells the story of a great war between two groups of relati

2016-10-22 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Chinese activists are demanding that a polar bear named Pizza be moved from captivity in a shopping center to a better home.About 50 animal activist groups across China have joined

2016-10-22 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.Video game company Nintendo announced its newest portable gaming device on Thursday. It is called the Nintendo Switch. It lets users play games

2016-10-22 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Today we are visiting a vast and remote park in the state of Alaska. The park is bigger than the country of Switzerland. It is six times the size of Yellowstone. In fact, it is the

2016-10-21 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The ruling and main opposition parties in South Korea are in a dispute over claims made by a former South Korea foreign minister.They are arguing about a vote on North Korea’

2016-10-21 所属栏目:AS IT IS

American presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to say the election process is “rigged.”Trump, a businessman, is the candidate of the Republican Party. The Democ

2016-10-21 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Rami Adham was deeply troubled by television reports he saw about children in his former home of Aleppo, Syria.The reports said Syrian government attacks were terrorizing the child

2016-10-20 所属栏目:AS IT IS

An aid group says 5,000 people have fled fighting near Iraq’s northern city of Mosul and arrived at a refugee camp in Syria.Save the Children said Wednesday the refugees have

2016-10-20 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The United Nations says the war in Afghanistan killed more than 2,500 Afghan civilians in the first nine months of 2016.More than 5,800 others were wounded.The U.N. Assistance Miss

2016-10-20 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.People on social media are reacting to photographs of a blue-eyed tea seller from Pakistan.Photographer Jiah Ali was carrying her camera when sh

2016-10-19 所属栏目:AS IT IS

President Barack Obama says the percentage of Americans completing high school rose to its highest level ever last year.The president said the completion rate for the 2014-2015 sch

2016-10-19 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Last year, an American research group asked people in 38 countries for their opinions about free speech.What the researchers discovered may surprise you. They found that people in

2016-10-19 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.The world is getting its first look at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s official 2017 calendar.The calendar shows many sides of the Russ

2016-10-18 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.Something called a “supermoon” rose at night on October 15 and 16.That is when the moon is full, closer to Earth than usual, and lit

2016-10-18 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Many people are watching and listening to Rodrigo Duterte, the recently elected president of the Philippines.This week, President Duterte is going overseas and visiting China. The

2016-10-18 所属栏目:AS IT IS

In the African country of Malawi, fishing is a way of life for people who live near lakes.The fishers have several methods to dry the fish for market. But since the fishers dry the

2016-10-18 所属栏目:AS IT IS

People in East Asia and Pacific nations are closely watching the American presidential election campaign.Experts say statements made during the election campaign have raised concer

2016-10-17 所属栏目:AS IT IS

In France, a man walks on what can only be described as a human-sized hamster wheel.The wheel moves around and around, as the man keeps walking. What is he doing?He is lifting a he

2016-10-17 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Last week, Indian police arrested at least 70 people suspected of stealing money from people in the United States.The police said people working at a call center in India spoke wit