Cristiano Ronaldo has won UEFA's award as the best player in Europe last season after scoring a record 17 goals in the Champions League. The Real Madrid and Portgual forward beat Bayern Munich pair Manuel Neuer of Germany and the Netherlands' Arjen R...
How many times have you lent a friend some cash for lunch or a movie only to never see it again? Here's how to get paid back easily and how you can prevent this problem in the future. 你曾有过这样的经历吗？借朋友午饭或电影票钱，却...
Deciding where to place a Wi-Fi router at home to minimise signal blackspots is a fine art. But a physicist has attempted to tackle the problem by mathematically working out the optimum position for a router. He studied how walls and reflections affe...
The gold bars, worth a total of ?10,000 (13,000 euros, $17,000), were buried in Folkestone, southeast England, by Berlin-based Michael Sailstorfer as part of an upcoming arts festival. Members of the public will be allowed to keep any of the 24-carat...
Isn't the English language marvellous? 英语是极好的（marvellous），不是吗？ Some wouldn't say so, but for 20 years traditional British words have slowly been replaced by Americanisms. 有些人大概不会用marvellous这个词。但近2...
School is starting, and students across the country are about to spend a lot of time in the classroom and in the library. And as they crack their textbooks open, they're going to hear a lot of familiar advice about how to study right. Sit still, in a...
The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards are done and over. Like the largely paint-by-numbers ceremony, which offered exactly what you would expect of an Emmys ceremony (nothing more, nothing less), the awards were notable largely for how unsurprising they wer...
Billy Crystal paid tribute to Robin Williams, his longtime friend and fellow comedian, at the Emmy Awards on Monday - and no one could have said it better. 比利?克里斯托在周一晚举行的艾美奖颁奖典礼上致敬他永远的朋友和伟大...
An ambitious project to establish a human colony on Mars has attracted applications from tens of thousands of would-be astronauts, just two weeks after applications opened. 一项雄心勃勃的火星人类殖民计划在开放申请短短两周之内就...
Scientists at UC Berkeley released a video showing an earthquake early-warning system that sent an alert before the magnitude-6.0 Napa earthquake Sunday morning. 加州伯克利大学科学家发布的一则视频显示加州酒乡Napa周日上午发生...
When a South Carolina student was given an assignment by his teacher to create a Facebook-type status report telling something interesting about himself, he allegedly wrote I killed my neighbors pet dinosaur. I bought the gun to take care of the busi...
A hair stylist from New York is smartening up the city's homeless by giving them haircuts on his day off. 一名纽约发型师利用自己的休息时间为无家可归的流浪汉理发，他的这一善行为纽约市增色不少。 Mark Bustos, 3...
Panda cub Bao Bao, who turned one Saturday, took a morning walk in her yard in the National Zoo here, kicking off a much-anticipated party to celebrate her first birthday. During a traditional Chinese Zhuazhou ceremony, Bao Bao first chose a poster s...
Its going to be another battle of the Brits at the 2014 Emmy Awards, with Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch and Idris Elba among those going head to head for the gold. The trio are set for a showdown of potentially epic proportions after all being...
The producer of this month's Emmy Awards says Robin Williams will receive a meaningful remembrance during the ceremony. 艾美奖制作人本月宣布将会为罗宾?威廉姆斯设置一个有意义的生平纪念环节。 Producer Don Mischer said...
