R2-D2 will be rolling into Mickey Mouse’s neighborhood, Disney announced Saturday, unveiling plans for two huge "Star Wars" attractions at existing theme park venues in Florida and California.
星際大戰中的機器人R2-D2將成為米奇老鼠的鄰居，迪士尼週六宣布，揭露在佛羅里達州和加州現有主題樂園內建造兩個大型「星際大戰」遊樂設施的計畫。
Disney CEO Bob Iger said that after Disney’s $4 billion purchase of Lucasfilm three years ago, "we wanted to bring ’Star Wars’ to every corner of our company... Not only on screens but in real life."
The sweeping archives of award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro will be heading to a University of Texas research library, including a discarded opening chapter for his best-known book, "The Remains of the Day," the university said.
德州大學指出，得獎小說家石黑一雄諸多的文件檔案將會前進德州大學研究圖書館，包括他最知名的小說「長日將盡」一個被棄用的開頭章節。
The novelist, who was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and has lived in Britain since he was a child, has kept extensive notes of his novels and multiple drafts of his works that include "Never Let Me Go" and "The Buried Giant."
Eating breakfast ’on the go’ really can lead to weight gain because it encourages people to eat more, a study has shown. Researchers from the University of Surrey found eating while walking around triggered more overeating compared to eating during other forms of distraction such as watching TV or having a conversation with a friend.
研究顯示，邊忙邊吃早餐，真的會造成體重增加，因為這樣會促使人吃更多。英國薩里大學研究人員發現，走動的時候吃東西，會比看電視或和朋友講話這些其他分心形式，更讓人吃下過多東西。
The asked 60 women to eat a cereal bar while either walking down a corridor, watching the sitcom Friends or chatting to a friend.
Ukraine has launched a criminal probe into wine-tasting by Russian President Vladimir Putin and ex-Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi after they allegedly quaffed a $100,000 bottle of centuries-old wine in Crimea, prosecutors said Saturday.
檢察官週六表示，烏克蘭已對俄羅斯總統普廷及義大利前總理貝魯斯孔尼品嘗葡萄酒之舉展開刑事調查，因為據稱他們在克里米亞暢飲一瓶10萬美元的百年醇酒。
The Kremlin strongman and the disgraced billionaire reportedly cracked open a bottle of 1775 Spanish Jerez de la Frontera at the famed Massandra winery during a private visit by Berlusconi this month to the region Moscow annexed from Kiev in 2014.
The owner of a Kentucky reptile store had to be rescued by police after a 20-foot-long python weighing up to 125 pounds wrapped around him, authorities said.
當局表示，肯塔基州一間爬蟲動物店的店主，被一條20英尺長、重達125磅的巨蟒纏住後，須由警方救援。
Terry Wilkins was tangled up with the snake when two police officers arrived at the Captive Born Reptiles store in Newport, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, at around noon on Monday.
WHO CREATED THE NOBEL PRIZES?
誰創辦諾貝爾獎？
The prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, a Swedish industrialist and the inventor of dynamite. The first awards were handed out in 1901, five years after Nobel’s death. The economics award was created by Sweden’s central bank in 1968.
A Canadian Conservative election candidate who was caught on camera urinating into a coffee mug is no longer running for the party, a party spokesman said on Monday.
一位加拿大保守黨候選人被鏡頭抓到在一個咖啡馬克杯裡尿尿，他已不再代表該黨參選，保守黨發言人週一說。
Jerry Bance had been a candidate for the ruling Conservatives in a Toronto-area district ahead of the Oct. 19 vote.
Canada, India, Singapore and Egypt are "seriously" interested in buying France’s two Mistral warships, a senior French official has said, after Paris scrapped a deal to sell the vessels to Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
巴黎當局因烏克蘭危機取消一項對俄羅斯出售軍艦的交易後，加拿大、印度、新加坡和埃及「認真地」有興趣購買這兩艘法國西北風級軍艦，一名法國高層官員說。
Louis Gautier, an official who advises the prime minister on defence and security matters, also told lawmakers this week that the cost of abandoning the agreement with Russia would be at least 1.1 billion euros if the government did not find another buyer, according to a summary of his comments obtained by AFP Friday.
