AP美联社一分钟新闻 2009-05-17(在线收听

1. The Hubble Space Telescope has a new high-tech gadget, helping it uncover the secrets of the universe. Spacewalking astronauts installed an 88-million-dollar spectrograph designed to detect faint light from faraway quasar.

2. President Barack Obama reaches across the partisan aisle, appointing Republican Utah Governor Jon Huntsman to a key post - ambassador to China. Obama says the post will be critical to solving many of the world's problems.

3. A car bomb in Pakistan tears through an Internet café and a bus with handicapped children on board. The blast in Peshawar killed at least 11 people, wounding many more.

4. President Obama switched to being a soccer dad, taking in a game whose players included seven-year-old daughter Sasha, whose team scored at one point, to the delight of the commander in chief.

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