2016-10-16 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The major U.S. presidential candidates have very different ideas about foreign policy.Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have proposed to take American foreign po

2016-10-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This week on our national parks journey, we travel to Utah. The western state is home to several of the most popular national parks in America.Today, we travel to the eastern part

2016-10-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned this week that tensions between Russia and the United States have reached a “dangerous point.”His comments followed a seri

2016-10-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Twenty-one schoolgirls kidnapped by the Boko Haram militant group were freed this week after being held for more than two years.The 21 were part of a group of nearly 300 girls take

2016-10-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The International Day of the Girl was observed in the United States and a number of other countries earlier this week.Last Tuesday, President Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, l

2016-10-15 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.People in the United States who enjoy smoking Cuban cigars celebrated Friday.The U.S. government ended its restriction on cigars, a tobacco prod

2016-10-14 所属栏目:AS IT IS

American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday.The Swedish Academy said it chose Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within

2016-10-14 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Member states of the United Nations have elected Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres, the organization’s next secretary-general.Assembly president Peter T

2016-10-13 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump says that he is probably better off without the support of some members of his party. Many leading Republican officials recently

2016-10-13 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Two professors at American universities have won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. They were honored for their work on business agreements that affect billions of people worldw

2016-10-13 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today:October might seem to be pumpkin month in the U.S.The holiday of Halloween comes on October 31. Americans around the country are already using s

2016-10-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today….Forget the presidential candidate with his name in gold lettering on tall buildings in New York City.And forget his main opponent, the w

2016-10-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Nearly 600,000 people need urgent assistance because of recent severe flooding in North Korea as the winter season approaches.Large amounts of water from a typhoon hit villages nea

2016-10-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is working to gain acceptance in the United States.Ahmadi Muslims are oppressed in Pakistan and other countries for not being “true” Musl

2016-10-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Sunday's U.S. Presidential debate was the most-tweeted debate in Twitter's ten-year history, the social network said.Twitter users sent more than 17 million debate-related tweets

2016-10-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The European Union has launched a new border force to control the flow of immigrants entering EU member countries.The new force is called the European Border and Coast Guard Agency

2016-10-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Virginia is one of the so-called “swing” or “battleground” states in the 2016 presidential election. Voters there could decide whether Republican Donald Tru

2016-10-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

When she was a girl, Zandile Mzazi loved to sing. She tried to sing along with stars like Whitney Houston. She did not know her love of singing was the first step towards an opera

2016-10-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

A new public opinion survey shows that more than 76 percent of Filipinos approve of the job President Rodrigo Duterte is doing.The survey found 76 percent of those questioned were

2016-10-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Tiny water plants called phytoplankton serve as food for many sea creatures, including whales, shrimp, jellyfish and snails.Phytoplankton do well in cold water. But if water temper

2016-10-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

British scientists have created what they believe is the best three-dimensional model of a dinosaur ever built.They say the model is almost the exact the length, width and height o

2016-10-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Many countries use a public referendum to decide major policy questions. But the results of several recent referenda have been anything but clear and simple.Governments usually cal

2016-10-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

This is What’s Trending Today.Millions of people are watching a video of a 5-year-old girl from the U.S. state of Colorado completing an obstacle course at her home.Gavin Mac

2016-10-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Our national parks journey this week takes us to the western state of Colorado. There, you will find a 77-kilometer-long canyon. Its exposed rocks are among the oldest you will fin

2016-10-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Voters in the western state of Colorado will decide next month if they want their state to have a single-payer health care system.Under such a system, private health insurance comp