英语听力：VOA双语新闻 6、索马里总理谴责青年党制造炸弹袭击

Somalias prime minister says Tuesdays suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu shows the increasing desperation of al-Qaida linked forces who still control large parts of the famine-wracked country. The blast killed at least 70 people and injured scores more

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 15、巴以交换战俘之后，下一步如何走？

Tuesday's exchange of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit has brought happiness to many in the region - but the underlying confrontations remain. 巴勒斯坦和以色列之间星期二展开的战俘交换让区域内的

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 14、华盛顿举行马丁.路德.金纪念园落成典礼

Delayed by Hurricane Irene in August, the day finally came. U.S. President Barack Obama, the countrys first black president, dedicated a $120 million statue and memorial park Sunday to the slain civil rights leader who helped pave the way for him and

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 13、美国共和党总统参选人凯恩异军突起

Georgia businessman Herman Cain is the surprise leader in the race for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, according to the latest poll. But some political analysts question whether Cain has enough staying power to remain a serious conten

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 12、占领华盛顿示威者拒绝收兵

Anti-war and anti-Wall Street demonstrations are springing up in major cities across the United States, nearly a month after they started in the heart of New York's financial district. At the protest in Washington, demonstrators are trying to remain

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 11、前乌克兰总理被判刑欧洲不满

A Kyiv court has sentenced former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in jail for abusing her power in a 2009 gas deal with Russia. The conviction and jail sentence comes just as Ukraine hopes to sign a free trade agreement with the Europe

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 10、美国就业人数增加，失业率不减

The U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in September, but the nation's unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent for the third straight month. Although September's job growth was stronger than most economists were expecting, it is still not growing fa

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 9、阿富汗战争十周年 当地民众感到失望

Afghans are expressing a mixture of disappointment and uncertainty about their future, as they mark the anniversary of the start of the Afghan war. 在阿富汗战争十周年之际，阿富汗人对他们的未来感到失望和不确定。 The Unit

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 8、消费者寄希望于乔布斯身后的苹果公司

From communications to entertainment, Apple products have profoundly changed the way people around the world obtain information and use technology. The man that led Apple through its evolution was Steve Jobs. Apple has been so successful in selling i

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 7、苹果公司在乔布斯之后将何去何从？

When Steve Jobs died Wednesday, the business world lost a marketing genius - one of the world's most creative and successful innovators. Jobs, who is credited with rescuing the company he founded and turning it into one of the world's most valuable c

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 5、洛杉矶港口严格控制空气污染

Some of the most polluted places in the world are ports, resulting in health problems that some experts say can lead not only to respiratory problems, but cancer. 海港往往是世界上污染最严重的地方。专家说，这些污染的情况导致

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 4、美国攻打阿富汗十年后战斗仍在继续

The U.S. and other NATO forces on October 7, 2001 attacked al-Qaida extremists and their Taliban allies in Afghanistan, less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks. That military operation drove the Taliban from power. But the conflict

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 3、联合国举办奴隶制纪念碑国际设计竞赛

The United Nations Friday announced an international competition to design a memorial honoring the victims of slavery. Its estimated that over 500 years, more than 18 million people were abducted from Africa and forced into slavery in the Americas, t

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 2、多喝咖啡的女性较少患抑郁症

Women who drink coffee may have a lower risk of depression, according to a study from the Harvard School of Public Health. Several recent studies have looked at a possible link between coffee and suicide, and found that coffee drinkers were less like

英语听力：VOA双语新闻 1、奥拉基之死意义重大

The death of a senior al-Qaida figure by a U.S. air strike in Yemen leaves a gap in the senior ranks of what counterterrorism officials say is the most lethal of the group's franchises, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). But how significant a

VOA双语新闻---报告：非洲未准备好应对人口老化

A new report says African governments are ill prepared to handle the growing number of people over age 65. The African Development Bank is raising concerns over the lack of health insurance and pensions. 一份新的报告说，非洲政府还没准备

VOA双语新闻---美国称亚太国家可帮助解决欧洲危机

US officials say the Asia Pacific region is less affected than other areas by the financial crisis in Europe and can stimulate worldwide economic growth. Talks by finance and foreign ministers are taking place in Hawaii at the annual summit of APEC,

VOA双语新闻---宾州州立大学校长和教练因性侵案被解雇

The arrest on child-abuse charges of a one-time assistant football coach at a prominent American university has quickly broadened into a major scandal. The president of Pennsylvania State University and the school's enormously popular football coach,

VOA双语新闻---美澳宣布扩大军事合作

The United States and Australia have announced expanded military cooperation aimed at bolstering security in the Asia-Pacific region. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the agreement after his arrival for a o

VOA双语新闻---利比亚军方称抓获卡扎菲儿子赛义夫

A Libyan revolutionary militia commander from the town of Zintan announced Saturday that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, was captured alive in southern Libya, near the border of Niger and Algeria. 利比亚革命武