Small-business owners are discovering an upside to the economic downturn: a deeper pool of talent to tap through internship programs. 'The latest crop of interns was amazing,' says Joanna Pineda, chief executive of Matrix Group International Inc., an Arlington, Va.-based full-service web solutions provider. Pineda is now considering offering a year-long paid internship alongside the company's longstanding summer program for high-school and college students. Large employers have slashed the number...

Housework 'makes British men more attractive' British men make some of the best husbands in the world because they are more willing to do housework, new research suggests. Experts claim that women are more attracted to men if they believe they will help out with household chores and make an equal contribution towards childcare. The study, which looked at relationships in 13 countries, ranked British men as the third most likely to win women's hearts through their apparent commitment to domestic l...

By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright。 通过在全世界范围内发起世界读书日的活动，联合国教科文组织借此推进阅读、出版和保护知识产权。 23 April: a symbolic date for world literature for on this date and in the same year of 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other promin...

Monument to Bush shoe-thrower shines at Iraqi orphanage For the war-beaten orphans of the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, this big old shoe fits. A huge sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December during a trip to Iraq has been unveiled in a ceremony at the Tikrit Orphanage complex. Assisted by children at the home, sculptor Laith al-Amiri erected a brown replica of one of the shoes hurled at Bush and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki by journalist Muntadhir al-Zaidi during a press ...

With housing prices down significantly in many parts of the country and interest rates low, it may be an affordable time for twentysomethings to buy that first home. In some instances, the price of owning can be comparable to renting in the long run. But a lot of uncertainty still remains about the housing market and the economy -- making the decision to buy more complicated. Nicole Stivers, a 24-year-old who works in public relations in Contra Costa County, Calif., purchased her first home with ...

Michael Jackson drugs death was homicide says coroner The Los Angeles coroner has ruled that Michael Jackson's death was homicide, while police have found evidence pointing to manslaughter during a search of a clinic used by his doctor. The coroner confirmed Jackson had lethal levels of the powerful anaesthetic propofol in his body. Court documents unsealed in Houston, Texas, revealed that Dr Conrad Murray had admitted to detectives that he gave the singer several different drugs in the hours bef...

rink up: Space station recycling urine to water Astronauts aboard the space station celebrated a space first on Wednesday by drinking water that had been recycled from their urine, sweat and water that condenses from exhaled air. They said cheers, clicked drinking bags and toasted NASA workers on the ground who were sipping their own version of recycled drinking water. The taste is great, American astronaut Michael Barratt said. Then as Russian Gennady Padalka tried to catch little bubbles of the...

London's Big Ben celebrates the 150th anniversary of its first chiming on Saturday. The Great Bell, housed in Saint Stephen's Tower which adjoins the House of Commons, first struck the hour on July 11, 1859, and has been interrupted only occasionally for maintenance and bad weather ever since. To mark the anniversary, the message Happy Birthday Big Ben, 150 years, 1859 - 2009 will be projected on the tower. These days, the name Big Ben is frequently used to describe the tower, one of the capital'...

Recession pulls U.S. senior citizens back to work: survey The worst US economic recession in 70 years is forcing senior citizens out of retirement, leaving them fighting for jobs in a weak labor market or risking homelessness, according to a private study. The study by Experience Works, released on Tuesday, showed 46 percent of the 2,000 low income people over 55 years who participated needed to find work to keep their homes. Nearly half of them had been searching for work for more than a year. E...

Can America's Trains Go High-Speed? The U.S. already has high-speed trains: the Acela Express has been carrying millions of riders between Washington, D.C., New York and Boston since 2000. It zips along at 150 miles per hour for relatively short distancesjust over 25 miles per hour faster than conventional counterparts. But compare it with high-speed trains in Europe and Asia that can reach speeds over 200 miles per hour on hundreds of miles of track. The problem is: tracks in the U.S. are not de...

a gets jersey from Brazil's Lula President Barack Obama seemed pleased with the gift he received Thursday from Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but it was bittersweet nonetheless. Silva gave Obama, a big sports fan, an autographed yellow Brazilian soccer jersey at the start of their morning meeting at the G-8 summit in Italy. During their banter, which reporters partly heard through a translator, Silva spoke animatedly of the June 28 soccer match between the U.S. and Brazilian nation...

当地时间2010年4月25日，奥巴马和副总统拜登来到出席在西弗吉尼亚州矿难中遇难矿工的悼念仪式。在致辞中，他逐一地念出全部遇难者的姓名。 奥巴马的悼词（全文） 无论我、副总统、州长，或是今天致悼词的任何一个人，都不能说出任何话语，可以填补你们因痛失亲人心中的创伤。 尽管我们在哀悼这29条逝去的生命，我们同样也要纪念这29条曾活在世间的生命。 凌晨4点半起床...