Around 1820, the German doctor Justinus Kerner described botulin toxin as sausage poison, because the deadly Clostridium botulinum bacterium is often found in meat products. The medical name for the food poisoning it can cause is botulism, from the L...

Eighteen-year-old Zhou Yang became a national hero after she won a gold medal in the women's 1,500 meters short-track speed skating during the Vancouver Winter Olympics last month. But the girl from a poor family in the northeastern rustbelt of Jilin...

A combinationphoto of Carlos Slim, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday. Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim is the world's richest person, knocking Microsoft founder Bill G...

比利时一家法语报纸最近推出了欧洲首份3D版的报纸，随报附赠特制眼镜以便读者体验3D效果。据悉，这份报纸除文字部分外，所有的图片和广告都 添加了三维立体特效。专业人士称，在光线良...

Women have 30 minutes less time to enjoy themselves every day. Men enjoy half an hour more of leisure time each day than women, a report claims. 日前发布的一项报告称，男性每天的休闲时间比女性多半个小时。 The international...

年少时，英语教授杨佳曾梦想能够像书中人物那 般生活。 When she was younger, English professor Yang Jia dreamed of being like characters in the books she read. 她想象自己是意志坚强且独立的简 爱，顽强抗争，忠...

Women head governments, run companies and comprise about half the world's workforce, but a global poll shows that one in four people, most of them young, believe a woman's place is in the home. 尽管女性执政、从商，且构成全世界约一半...

US shoppers are regaining their taste for the national brand groceries that some steered away from during the recession, providing evidence of an improvement in consumer confidence. 美国消费者对全国性的食品和生活用 品品牌的兴趣正...

EMI Music, the record label crippled by debt, announced yesterday that Elio Leoni-Sceti, its chief executive, is to leave after just 18 months and before completing a rescue plan. 债务缠身的唱片公司百代音乐(EMI Music)昨日宣布，上任仅...

胡祖六为高盛工作了13年。 Fred Hu, Greater China chairman for Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and one of its longest-serving China executives, is leaving his post at the Wall Street bank, a Goldman Sachs spokeswoman said. 高盛集团 (Goldma...