OECD says Unemployment Will Continue to Rise OECD：工业化国家失业率持续攀升 Despite reports that many industrialized economies are beginning to emerge from their worst economic crisis in decades, unemployment is rising and will likely re...

Afghan Election Recount Begins Before Final, Preliminary Results Released 阿富汗开始重新统计部分大选选票 Afghan election officials have begun recounting disputed ballots from the August 20 presidential election. The recount amid fraud...

France Wants Happiness Included in Progress Measures 法国提议把幸福指数纳入经济指标 As countries begin emerging from the global financial crisis, France is proposing to measure progress in a new way - one that includes happiness and we...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: dictionary editor Ben Zimmer explains terms from the U.S. presidential campaign. RS: We start with battleground state and swing state. BEN ZIMMER: Well, they're usually used prett...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: how should a teacher handle controversial topics in the classroom? Rutgers University professor Barbara Lee gets asked that question all the time, as she recently did through an o...

Sri Lanka Expelling Senior UN Official 斯里兰卡政府驱逐联合国官员 Sri Lanka's government is ordering the spokesman for the U.N. Children's Fund to leave the country. Our correspondent reports the expulsion stems from comments by the offi...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: word order and the mind. A new study suggests that people naturally gesture in the order of subject-object-verb, regardless of the rules of their spoken language. Susan Goldin-Mea...

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: expanding on reductions. When speakers compress a phrase like going to into gonna, or what do you into whaddaya, that's a reduction. We mentioned their importance when we talked l...