Hapless attempt at parallel parking in Belfast is internet hit 貝爾法斯特不幸的路邊停車嘗試成網路熱門影片
◎管淑平
A video of an unfortunate woman trying to park her car in a Belfast street has become an internet sensation.
一名不幸運的婦女在貝爾法斯特一條街道上試圖停車的影片，已成為網路爆紅影片。
It shows a female driver taking about 30 minutes and several attempts to reverse her car into a space between two vehicles.
Afghan interpreters win right to new life in Britain 阿富汗口譯員贏得在英國展開新生活的權利
◎陳維真
Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces in Afghanistan will be offered the chance of a new life in Britain after a government U-turn, it was revealed on Wednesday.
週三曝光的消息指出，多達600名協助英軍的阿富汗口譯員在政府政策大轉彎後，將獲得在英國展開新生活的機會。
Prime Minister David Cameron had initially decided to discourage the interpreters from settling in Britain for fear of the message it would send out about the stability of Afghanistan as foreign forces pull out.
No more Everest, says oldest to climb highest peak 不再攻聖母峰了，登上峰頂的最年長者說
◎魏國金
The oldest person to climb Mount Everest said Sunday that he won’t make any further attempts to scale the world’s highest peak _ even though his new record may soon be in jeopardy.
攀登聖母峰最年長者週日說，他不會做任何進一步攀登世界最高峰頂的嘗試—即使他的新紀錄或許很快就岌岌可危。
"I think three times is enough,"Yuichiro Miura, who reached the top of Everest at the age of 80 last week, told reporters. "At this point I could not think of anything but rest."
Increase potassium and cut salt to reduce stroke risk 飲食增加鉀、減少鹽分可降低中風風險
◎國際新聞中心
Increasing potassium in our diets as well as cutting down on salt will reduce blood pressure levels and the risk of stroke, research in the British Medical Journal suggests.
刊登在「英國醫學期刊」的研究顯示，在我們的飲食中增加鉀並減少鹽分，可降低血壓和中風風險。
One study review found that eating an extra two to three servings of fruit or vegetables per day - which are high in potassium - was beneficial. A lower salt intake would increase the benefits further, researchers said.
Mary! Your message in a bottle has arrived...28 years later 瑪莉！你的瓶中信…遲了28年後，來了
◎張沛元
A Canadian man’s message in a bottle honoring his promise to write to a woman named Mary has finally washed ashore 28 years later in Croatia.
一名實踐諾言寫信給一個名叫瑪莉的女子的加拿大男子所寫的瓶中信，28年後終於被沖上克羅埃西亞海岸。
Surfers cleaning the debris from a beach at the mouth of the Neretva river in the southern Adriatic came across a half-broken bottle with a paper inside, Croatian newspaper Dubrovack Vjesnik said on its website.
