Record 58 countries to compete for best foreign film Oscar 2006奥斯卡最佳外语片奖竞争空前激烈
Replicas of Oscar statuettes. A record 58 countries from four continents are vying for nominations in next year''s be

      ''Harry Potter'' dominates box office
哈利波特风暴横扫全球 首映票房再创新高
Mike Newell, right, British director of ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,'' the fourth installment of Harry P

      This is an undated photo showing the bow of the Titanic at rest on the bottom of the North Atlantic, about 400 miles southeast of Newfoundland.
The discovery of two large pieces of the Titanic's hull on the

      12月8日，商务部副部长魏建国在杭州举行的民营企业（中国·温州）对话世界500强活动上说，目前世界最大的500家跨国公司中，已有450家在华投资。据统计，去年外商投资企业完成工业增加值占全国工业增加值的27.8％，纳税总额占全国税收总收入的20.8％，此外，还解决了2000多万人的就业问题，有力地促进了我国经济快速健康发展。
Four hundred and fifty of the World Top 500

      China has high hopes for the 2008 Olympic Games -- 8,850 meters (29,035 ft) high, to be exact.
Beijing is investigating how to haul the Olympic torch to the peak of Mount Everest and broadcast the event live duri

      Lingerie maker Triumph''s model Yu Misaki shows off the Eco-globe Bra, which has cups that join together to form a palm-sized green globe, in Tokyo November 9, 2004. The brassiere, licensed for the Expo

      The answer: the opportunities seem to far outweigh the risks. The major oil firms are under intense pressure from investors to find new reserves — now. With near record crude prices and Iraq in turmoil, Russia'

      　　The Chinese government announced yesterday that the initial round of clinical tests show the world''s first vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome to be safe and effective.
Wang Xiaofang, a sen

      Great Barrier Reef in danger
THE Great Barrier Reef''s inshore coral and seagrass meadows are choking under a blanket of mud laced with toxic pesticides being washed off farmlands and many reefs are unlik

     
Scattered through the seas of the world are billions of tons of small
plants and animals called plankton. Most of these plants and animals are
too small for the human eye to see. They drift about lazily with

     
　　Pablo Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain in 1881. When he died in 1973, he was ninety-one years old. But he still took up his paints and brushes to start a new picture as if he were seeing things for the first time

     
　　The last time Natasha s parents saw her was in Los Angeles over Father s Day weekend in 2001. She flew there to join them in sightseeing, shopping and visiting relatives.
A month later, Natasha was found

     
Oliver Wendell Holmes (奥利佛·文德尔·荷默斯)
Mar.7,1931. (1931.3.7)
Brief introduction to the speaker : (演讲者简介：)
Oliver Wendeil Holmes (1841-1935) Oliver Wendeil Holmes, Jr., was

      What I saw was a great opportunity to provide computing technology in a more efficient way. That was the core idea of what became dell computer Corporation, and that’s one we were stuck over ever since.

      Global warming is shrinking glaciers on the Tibet side of Mount Everest faster than ever, putting world water supplies at risk, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
Chinese scientists researching the world'