Not to alarm you, but your daily morning regimen might be harming the planet’s oceans.
不是要嚇你，但是你每天早上的習慣或許正在傷害地球的海洋。
What’s the culprit? Microbeads. They are tiny, plastic beads that many companies have added to body scrubs, cosmetics, soaps -- essentially hundreds of products, to create an exfoliating sensation for users.
France’s closely-watched wine harvest should be slightly less plentiful than it was last year due to a lack of rain, official figures showed, but industry professionals are nevertheless expecting a good vintage.
因為缺乏雨水，法國細心照顧的葡萄酒產量今年應該會比去年稍微下滑，官方統計數據顯示，但製酒業專家仍預估今年葡萄酒的品質優良。
The predictions, published by the agriculture ministry every year, are always much anticipated by wine lovers the world over, particularly after France re-claimed its title of number one producer in 2014 after two difficult years marked by heavy rain and cool temperatures.
The United Nations called a Dutch character who appears in blackface every Christmas a "vestige of slavery" and said that The Netherlands should begin overturning the popular tradition.
聯合國稱每年耶誕節都會以黑面孔出現的一名荷蘭人物是「奴隸遺緒」，並說荷蘭應著手廢除這個廣為流傳的傳統。
But Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the fate of "Black Pete", a sidekick of the Dutch Saint Nicholas, is not up to his government, calling the controversy a "social issue" rather than a matter of state.
Naomi Matsubara, 46, lived in Dubai and taught Japanese and karate at a local university for six years, now teaches Japanese at a private junior and senior high school in London.
46歲的松原直美曾住在杜拜以及在當地一所大學教日文與空手道6年，如今在倫敦的一所私立中學教日文。
With her background as a resident of multicultural London as well as Dubai, Matsubara reckoned she knew a thing or two about Islamic culture.
New research suggests that chimps have most of the mental capabilities needed to cook food.
新研究顯示，黑猩猩可能擁有烹煮食物所需的大部分心智能力。
This suggests that the ability to cook food is deep seated and may have arisen in human ancestors millions of years ago. The conclusions also indicate that humans may have developed the ability to cook very soon after they learned how to control fire.
A 20-year-old East Texas man jumped into a quickly arranged marriage after a judge told him last month he had a choice of getting hitched or spending 15 days in jail on an assault charge.
一名20歲的東德州男子在上月法官告訴他，可以選擇結婚或因攻擊罪入獄15天後，跳進一樁迅速安排的婚姻。
According to court documents, Smith County Judge Randall Rogers gave the option to Josten Bundy, of Tyler, Texas, who was arrested in March on a charge of assault causing bodily injury, a misdemeanor. Bundy had gotten into a fight with the ex-boyfriend of his then girlfriend and now wife.
Facebook on Thursday boasted of a new achievement with a billion people using the leading social network in a single day.
「臉書」週四誇耀達成一項新成績，在1天內有10億人使用這個龍頭社群網站。
"We just passed an important milestone," chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on his Facebook page.
Comedian and political novice Jimmy Morales was in the lead early Monday following Guatemala’s first-round presidential election, after a tumultuous campaign which saw the country’s leader jailed over a corruption scandal.
經過一場總統因貪污醜聞被拘押的紛擾選戰，喜劇演員、政治素人吉米．莫拉雷斯在瓜地馬拉總統選舉首輪投票結束後，位居領先地位。
The 46-year-old actor who rose to fame playing a simpleton who accidentally ends up becoming president was ahead with 25.8 percent of the vote, according to results with 81.5 percent of the ballots counted from Sunday’s election.
