2011-03-02 所属栏目:欧美文化

Turkey has embarked on one of the biggest dam-building projects in the world. It aims to meet the growing energy demands of Turkey's booming economy. But the scale and speed of the project is causin

2011-03-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

In the United States, many low income parents cannot afford to buy enough food for their children. A program called Kids Café is helping some of these children by providing free nutritious snacks and

2011-03-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

Twenty five years after the explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, a United Nations report estimates the disaster caused thyroid cancer in more than 6,000 children in the affected ar

2011-03-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhuanet) -- A biotechnology company says it can produce diesel using the same ingredients that make grass grow, media reported on Monday.The Massachusetts company Joule Unlimited h

2011-03-01 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Maternal cigarette smoking in the first trimester was associated with a 20 to 70 percent greater likelihood that a baby would be born with certain types of congenital h

2011-02-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

LOS ANGELES/SHANGHAI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Daily-deals website Groupon goes live in China on Monday, bringing its popular brand of Internet retail to the world's most populous nation.GaoPeng.com, funde

2011-02-28 所属栏目:欧美文化

CAPE CANAVERAL — Two American astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station Monday to stow a failed coolant pump and extend the outpost's Canadian railway.Wearing protective spaces

2011-02-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has docked at the International Space Station on its final voyage into outer space.

The shuttle paused on its way to the orbiting outpost Saturday to perform a 360

2011-02-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

President Barack Obama met with a group of state governors from his Democratic Party on Friday, to discuss ways to boost the U.S. economy and deal with state budget crises. The governors said they did

2011-02-27 所属栏目:欧美文化

President Barack Obama says he expects Congress to work out a budget agreement before next Friday, to avoid a government shutdown.During his weekly address Saturday, Mr. Obama said he is willing to li

2011-02-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

India’s southern state of Kerala has passed a law allowing people to seek compensation from U.S. soft drink company Coca Cola for alleged damages caused by a bottling plant. The company’s Indian sub

2011-02-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Spraying malaria-transmitting mosquitoes with a genetically modified fungus can kill the malaria parasite without harming the mosquito, potentially reducing malaria tra

2011-02-26 所属栏目:欧美文化

SANTO DOMINGO, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- The United States has donated 634,000 U.S. dollars in a new bid to help the Dominican Republic fight HIV/AIDS, the government said Friday.The funding from the U.S. A

2011-02-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Space Shuttle Discovery is now on its way to the International Space Station after what NASA calls "a picture perfect launch" from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Thursday. This is the last fl

2011-02-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Internet and social media are proving to be a double-edged sword. While they expand the possibilities of commerce and information-sharing, they are also used by terrorists to recruit members, to

2011-02-25 所属栏目:欧美文化

President Obama on Thursday presided over the first meeting of his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. During a more than hour long session, Mr. Obama told its members they have an important miss

2011-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

West Africa's Internet penetration level remains one of the lowest in the world, but a booming market for mobile phones has more tech companies sensing opportunity. U.S. search giant Google has set

2011-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

Crews at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are preparing the Space Shuttle Discovery for its final launch, scheduled for Thursday.Among the things it will carry to the International Space Station wi

2011-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

Vietnam recently devalued its currency, the dong, by 9.3 percent against the dollar. Analysts say soaring inflation here makes life harder for many Vietnamese workers. Consumer prices in Vietnam this

2011-02-24 所属栏目:欧美文化

Global oil prices have spiked in recent days in response to political instability in the Middle East and North Africa. Asia's export-driven economies, dependent on imported oil, are bracing for high

2011-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

South Sudan continues to move on after its successful independence referendum, announcing that its universities will reopen in mid-May this year. The south’s universities need a lot of work before o

2011-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

One of the most common questions cancer patients ask their doctors is: has the disease been contained or will it spread. A recent study by U.S. and Chinese researchers may help provide clues. The sc

2011-02-23 所属栏目:欧美文化

The U.S. space agency is moving ahead with preparations for Thursday's scheduled launch of the space shuttle Discovery on its mission to the International Space Station.

NASA said it was loading l

2011-02-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

The United Nations is holding a special meeting with donor countries to drum up support for its cholera treatment and control operations in Haiti. It says it has received less than half of the $175 mi

2011-02-22 所属栏目:欧美文化

The Indian government is promising to increase efforts against corruption, which has emerged as a major challenge for the country. India's president made the commitment during an address to parliame