BBC Learning English 6 Minute English Spider Invasion NB: This is not an accurate word-for-word transcript Kate: Welcome to this week's 6 Minute English. I'm joined today by Rebecca. Hi Rebecca. Now a bit of a scary question to start the programme wi...
A car bomb has killed at least 100 people and wounded more than 200 others in a shopping area of the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar. U.S. Secretary of State（国务卿） Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan just hours earlier for a three-day visi...
In today's Tech Bytes, the worlds largest cellphone maker is said to release its first laptop（笔记本电脑） in the US. Nokia starts taking orders on the booklet 3G beginning October 22th.It will run Microsoft's new Windows 7 software, have a ten-inch...
Searching the Internet can be a totally exhausting experience, as you bounce（反弹） from one site to another to another, sometimes until you cant remember what you were looking for in the first place. But according to scientists at U.C.L.A., all th...
Two Americans, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, share this year's Nobel Prize in Economics. The last award in this year's Nobel series, the Economics Prize, has been awarded to Elinor Ostrom from Indiana University and to Oliver Williamson from t...
Pigeon vs. web NB: This is not an accurate (精确的) word-for-word transcript Dima: Hello and welcome to this edition of 6 Minute English with me, Dima Kostenko Kate: and me, Kate Colin. Dima: Kate is here not simply to keep me company but also to giv...
President Barack Obama has brought together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for their first three-way meeting Tuesday. And hes challenging both leaders to move ahead on Mideast peace talks, saying it...
Every month new fitness products are hitting the market. The latest craze? Fitness shoes that claim to build muscles(肌肉). But do they work? Sports medicine expert Doctor Amadeus Mason says probably not. The main thing that makes one shoe better-off...
Authorities in northwestern Pakistan say that a suicide car bomber has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens others. Police say the attack occurred near the northwestern town of Kohat where a suicide bomber detonated（引爆） his explosive-fill...
Just like snails and porridge, fashion advisor at the TUC conference makes an uncomfortable combination（排列，组合）. But nestled somewhere between redundancy pay and spending cuts came stilettos, and the damage high heels cause to women's health. T...
Now, heres something you dont see every day: scientists cure color-blind monkeys. According to a report published online in the journal Nature, researchers have used gene therapy to allow color-blind squirrel monkeys to look at their fruit in a whol...
A new political party is taking power in Japan on Wednesday. The Democratic Party of Japan defeated the Liberal Democrats in the general election last month, making party leader Yukio Hatoyama the first prime minister from outside the LDP in nearly 1...
The United Nations reports the number of people affected by torrential rains and floods in West Africa has increased dramatically. The United Nations estimates（估计） 600,000 people have been affected and around 160 killed. Senegal, Burkina Faso, Gh...
[The] United States and five other world powers are calling on Iran to accept face-to-face nuclear talks, ahead of a key meeting of the UN General Assembly（大会） later this month. Several countries have made it clear that they'll be pushing for tou...
BBC Learning English6 Minute EnglishBFM International Film Festival6 Minute English ? Yvonne: Hello, I'm Yvonne Archer and this is '6 minute English' - and thanks toWilliam Kremer for joining me today. William: Hello it's a pleasure! Yvonne: For fif...
