英语听力：澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 2014-01-16（在线收听） |
A climate council report has found heat waves in Australia are becoming more frequent, hotter and are lasting longer. It says some parts of the country experienced an average increase of one to three heat waves days in the last 60 days. Total fire bans remain in place across Victoria and South Australia as they face another day of soaring temperatures. Scores of fire are still burning in both states. Adelaide is facing a near-record temperature of 46 degrees with 44 degrees in Melbourne. Investigators are trying to work out why a piece of track pierced a Sydney train, causing it to derail. Seven-hundred people were on the train when it came off the tracks near Edegcliff Station in the city's east just before six o'clock last night. No one was injured in the accident.
Police in India are investigating the alleged gang-rape of a Danish tourist in the capital New Delhi. Police say the 51-year-old woman was attacked after she became lost near her hotel in a popular tourist area. The woman has now left the country.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says more than nine million people in Syria are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. That's half the war-torn country's population. He was speaking at a donor conference in Kuwait where the UN is trying to raise 6.5 billion dollars to deal with the crisis.
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