Reports that an Italian government official accused of financial corruption allegedly used a Vatican choir singer to arrange gay liaisons for him are "shameful," the official's lawyer told CNN Saturday.Angelo Balducci is appealing a judge's deci...
Che Zhong: As far as possible quickly and safely stops - but stays in the vehicle may avoid hit by the whereabouts object. Crouches in hiding under the seat, if has the thing to fall on the vehicle, you will be able to obtain the protection. When vibr...
Monday May 18, 2002 Fine Our teacher told us something about the HopeProject in class this morning. He said, "Now in the countryside many children are very poor and still can't go to school.Can you help them?" After school, I went home. In my room, I saw...
A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.Colleen LaRose, known as "Jihad Jane" and "Fatima LaRose,"...
I should say the person I know most thoroughly is myself.Since I was born,I have never lost sight of myself for a single moment.So I always know what is in my mind,what I am going to do,what I enjoy and what I feel disgusted at. Now I am a girl of 19.I a...
We have to have a new English teacher this semester because Professor Wu has retired.Professor Wu is one of the professors whom we admire and love most.We miss him a lot. Last Sunday,our class chose five repesentatives to pay our respect to him and I was...
Thirty to 40 ships -- including several passenger ships -- were stuck Thursday in ice off the coast of Sweden, said a spokesman for the Maritime Search and Rescue Center in Gothenburg, Sweden.The area of the Baltic Sea worst hit by the ice were the waters...
Wolfgang Wagner, former director of the Bayreuth Festival and the grandson of composer Richard Wagner, has died aged 90 in Germany.A statement on the festival's website said that Wagner died on Sunday, but did not give further details."Wolfgang Wagne...
A chairman has been appointed to an independent review into the science published by the research unit at the centre of the "Climategate" row.Lord Oxburgh is a former chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology.&quo...
It was a sunny day, and I sat under a tree with a story book in my hand. When I open the book, a childish voice entered my ears, “Sister Hui, Play games with me, OK?” It was the daughter of my neighbors, she was only four years. “I am s...
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to call on Israel to make "difficult but necessary choices" if it wants a peace agreement with the Palestinians.Mrs Clinton will warn that the status quo is "unsustainable" in a speech to the pr...
US President Barack Obama has signed his landmark healthcare bill into law in a ceremony at the White House.The new law will eventually extend health insurance cover to about 32 million Americans who currently do not have any.Mr Obama said he was signing...
We have several teachers of English since we began to study in middle school. But it seems to me that the present teacher of English is the best one we have known so far. She is never tired of helping us in our studies. She patiently answers our question...
My name is Wunai Tianshi .I was born in Xionghe Jingzhou on November 13th 1991 .I want to be a journelist when I leave school !I have many friends in my school such as Fan Di Tong xin and so on ...I also have many friends in Xiaohe such as Suisuiyanggu...
BBC Radio 3 and World Service presenter Charlie Gillett has died after a long illness, aged 68.Known as a champion of world music, the Lancashire-born broadcaster passed away in a London hospital on Wednesday, his family has confirmed.He contracted an aut...
I was born in 1972 in an intellectual family.Both my father and mother are teachers who gave me a sound breeding and education.At the age of three I was sent to a kindergarten.At the age of seven I entered a primary school where my formal education began...
Israeli and Palestinian leaders have accepted indirect talks, according to George Mitchell, the Obama administration's special envoy for Middle East peace.Mitchell said the two sides, with him acting as intermediary, have begun to discuss the "struct...
By the end of the sixties, after her divorce from actor Mel Ferrer, Audrey decided to retire while she was on top. Later she married Dr. Andrea Dotti. From time to time, she would appear on the silver screen. One film of note was Robin and Marian (197...
The UK will formally launch its new space agency on Tuesday.The nation has been alone among the major industrialised nations in not having an executive body to direct its activities beyond the Earth's surface.The new organisation is expected to take contr...
A US citizen has pleaded guilty to scouting targets for the 2008 attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai.David Headley, at his trial in Chicago, also admitted plotting to attack a Danish newspaper that published a cartoon many Muslims deemed offensive.Headle...