英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

2025/05/21 05:30
◎管淑平
The final results of Iraq’s first census in nearly 40 years released Monday show the population has reached 46.1 million.
週一公布的伊拉克將近40年來首次人口普查最終結果顯示，該國人口已達4610萬人。
In 2009, an unofficial count estimated the population at 31.6 million.

2025/05/19 05:30
◎陳成良
A runaway sausage dog named Valerie has been captured after a 529-day adventure, transfixing Australia as she roamed an island teeming with kangaroos, possums, koala bears and penguins.
1隻名叫「瓦萊麗」的走失臘腸犬，在歷經529天的冒險後終於被尋獲。她在1座滿佈袋鼠、負鼠、無尾熊與企鵝的島嶼上四處遊蕩，牽動全澳洲民眾的心。
The miniature dachshund had eluded searchers on Kangaroo Island since November 2023, only rarely appearing in fuzzy glimpses caught by night-time cameras that showed her pink collar.

2025/05/15 05:30
◎孫宇青
Lacador, a small bar in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, has got its uptown funk on following a surprise visit by US pop hitmaker Bruno Mars.
在美國流行樂製作人火星人布魯諾突然造訪後，巴西好景市一家小酒吧Lacador在當地社區掀起一股熱潮。
For the bar’s owner, Ronaldo Teixeira, the unexpected appearance of the multi-Grammy-award winner was something he will never forget.

2025/05/13 05:30
◎國際新聞中心
Pope Leo XIV called on Monday for the release of journalists jailed "for seeking and reporting the truth" and warned reporters against using their words to fan hatred.
天主教教宗良14世週一呼籲釋放「因為追求與報導真相」而被監禁的記者，並警告記者不要利用他們的言詞煽動仇恨。
"Peace begins with each one of us － in the way we look at others, listen to others and speak about others," he told assembled journalists at the Vatican’s vast Paul VI audience hall.

2025/05/12 05:30
◎陳成良
Climate change played a key factor in torrential rains in India that triggered catastrophic landslides killing at least 200 people last month, a group of scientists said Wednesday.
一群科學家週三表示，氣候變遷是上月印度暴雨的主要因素，這場暴雨引發災難性的山崩，導致至少200人喪生
Monsoon rains battered the southern coastal state of Kerala and triggered landslides on July 30, burying homes and residents in Wayanad district under tonnes of rock and soil.

2025/05/07 05:30
◎管淑平
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday pushing for a return to plastic drinking straws, saying their impact on marine life was limited and that paper ones favored by environmentalists "explode."
美國總統唐納．川普週一簽署行政命令，推動恢復使用塑膠吸管，說它們對海洋生物的影響有限，環保人士所支持的紙吸管會「爆開」。
"We’re going back to plastic straws," Trump told reporters as he signed the order in the Oval Office.

2025/05/06 05:30
◎盧永山
A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.
紐約1家動物園的1隻小禿鷹不是由其他鳥而是由手偶餵養，這是1種已有數十年歷史的技術，目的是確保小禿鷹不會對人類飼養員產生過於親密的認同感。
King vultures can neglect their chicks, so hand-feeding is necessary to ensure the baby survives, the Bronx Zoo said in a statement Tuesday. But to make sure it doesn’t imprint on humans, staff train the bird’s instincts onto a hand puppet that’s crafted to look like a real vulture.

2025/05/05 05:30
◎陳成良
Giant prehistoric kangaroos perished when "climate upheaval" turned lush Australian rainforest into desert, scientists said Thursday after studying ancient fossils with new techniques.
科學家週四表示，根據他們利用新技術研究古代化石的結果，當「氣候劇變」將茂密的澳洲雨林轉變為沙漠時，巨型史前袋鼠因此滅絕。
Weighing as much as 170 kilograms (375 pounds) － almost twice as hefty as the chunkiest living kangaroos － the extinct "Protemnodon" bounded across Australia as many as five million years ago.

2025/04/30 05:30
◎管淑平
The White House said Friday it was indefinitely blocking Associated Press journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office, escalating a row with the US news agency over its refusal to call the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."
白宮週五表示，已無限期禁止美聯社記者搭乘空軍1號和進入橢圓形辦公室，升高與這家美國新聞機構，因其拒絕將墨西哥灣稱為「美國灣」而起的爭議。
"The Associated Press continues to ignore the lawful geographic name change of the Gulf of America," White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich said in a post on X.

2025/04/29 05:30
◎魏國金
Pope Francis’ doctor has recounted the pontiff’s final moments, saying the pontiff had his eyes open and was breathing with oxygen, but unresponsive after being stricken by illness early Monday morning. ’He died without suffering, at home,’ the doctor said.
教宗方濟各的醫生講述教宗生前最後時刻，指出教宗在週一清晨病倒後，雙眼睜著，吸著氧氣，但沒有反應。「他安祥在家辭世」，這位醫生說。
Dr.Sergio Alfieri coordinated Francis’ five-week hospital treatment for double pneumonia and continued to oversee the pope’s treatment after the pontiff returned to the Vatican on March 23.

2025/04/28 05:30
◎陳成良
More than 60,000 Myanmar students must retake university entrance exams after their answer papers were incinerated in a blaze caused by last month’s earthquake, state media said Tuesday.
緬甸國營媒體週二報導，因上個月地震引發大火，超過6萬名學生的入學考試答卷被燒毀，必須重新應試。
The magnitude-7.7 quake killed more than 3,700 people as it razed buildings in Myanmar’s central belt, with devastation focused on the second-most-populous city of Mandalay.

2025/04/25 05:30
◎ 張沛元
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is getting a bumpy ride over a promotional graphic that appears to evoke a terror attack on Paris.
巴基斯坦國際航空（PIA）因一張顯然會引人想到巴黎遭到恐怖攻擊的宣傳圖片而處境艱難。
The graphic, posted on X on January 10 to publicize the airline’s renewed flights to the French capital, shows a passenger jet flying toward the Eiffel Tower, alongside the tagline: “Paris, we’re coming today.”