Retiree Giorgos Chatzifotiadis had queued up at three banks in Greece’s second city of Thessaloniki on Friday in the hope of withdrawing a pension on behalf of his wife, but all in vain.
已經退休的希臘人查茲弗齊亞狄斯週五在希臘第二大城塞薩羅尼基已先後在三家銀行排隊，希望能代表他太太提領退休金。
When he was told at the fourth that he could not withdraw his 120 euros（$133）, it was all too much and he collapsed in tears.
An eye-popping, 100-carat diamond will be the highlight of a magnificent jewels sale in New York on Tuesday and could sell for up to $25 million, Sotheby’s auction house said.
蘇富比拍賣行表示，一枚吸睛、100克拉的鑽石將會在週二紐約一個豪華珠寶拍賣會上成為焦點，並且有可能以高達2500萬美元售出。
The perfect classic emerald-cut D color diamond, which was mined by De Beers in southern Africa, is the largest to be offered at auction and one of only five of similar quality and size to ever to go under the hammer.
A mountain lion has been spotted on four separate occasions around San Francisco in the past several days in the first such sightings in the city in years, officials said.
官員們說，過去幾天在舊金山附近四個不同場合看到一隻美洲獅，為該市多年來首見。
Three people have reported what is believed to be a single adult male mountain lion since June 30, according to a statement from the National Park Service, San Francisco Animal Care and Control, and the Presidio Trust on Tuesday.
American player Taylor Townsend, when deciding whether to stay in a cramped Parisian hotel or rent a private apartment during Roland Garros, opted for the former.
當參加法國網球公開賽的美國網球女將泰勒．湯森，在決定是要住在狹窄的巴黎飯店，還是租一間私人公寓時，她選擇了前者。
Past experience helped make up her mind.
Scientists have finally solved the mystery of a milky rain that coated cars and raised eyebrows across a wide swathe of the Pacific Northwest this February. A Washington State University team said they had determined that dust from the dry bed of a shallow lake some 480 miles （772 km） from where the rain fell was to blame for the unusual precipitation.
今年2月間，在太平洋西北廣大地區讓車輛覆蓋白白一層、讓人驚訝不已的牛奶雨之謎，終於被科學家解開。美國華盛頓州立大學的研究團隊說，他們判定這種不尋常的降雨，都是約772公里外一座淺湖乾涸湖底的沙所造成。
The rain left a trail of powdery residue across a nearly 200-mile （322-km） stretch of eastern parts of Oregon and Washington state, leaving scientists and residents perplexed about its origins. Some scientists initially speculated that an erupting Japanese volcano was the source of the powdery white substance. Others blamed wildfires, and some thought that a Nevada dust storm was the cause.
Anger boiled over Saturday at a massive commemoration of the Srebrenica slaughter 20 years ago as people pelted Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic with water bottles and other objects. Vucic, once an ultra-nationalist, came to represent his country at the commemoration in an apparent gesture of reconciliation.
群眾週六在一場紀念20年前斯雷布雷尼察屠殺事件的盛大活動中怒氣沸騰，紛紛以水瓶與其他物件猛砸塞爾維亞總理武契奇。曾是極端民族主義者的武契奇代表他的國家，以明顯的和解姿態出席這場紀念活動。
As Vucic entered the cemetery to lay flowers, thousands booed and whistled. A group of women from Belgrade, Serbia, who for years have demanding Serbia to admit its role in the slaughter, yelled "responsibility!’’ and "genocide!’’ Someone threw a shoe at him, others threw water bottles and other objects. The crowd eventually chased Vucic away from the ceremony. A few people carried banners with his own wartime quote： "For every killed Serb, we will kill 100 Bosniaks.’’
A new and inexpensive test is making it possible to identify all of a person’s past and present viral infections by simply analyzing a drop of blood.
一個新的、不昂貴的檢測，僅僅藉由分析一滴血，就可以辨識出一個人過去和現在所有的病毒感染情況。
The method, called VirScan, provides an alternative to sampling blood for one virus at a time, said researchers, who described the new technology in the US journal Science.
France’s interior minister has ordered a ban on the low-cost car-sharing service UberPOP after a day of nationwide protests by taxi drivers.
在計程車司機發動全國示威後，法國內政部長已下令禁止優步低價汽車共乘服務「UberPOP」。
Bernard Cazeneuve said the service was "illegal" and ordered police and prosecutors to enforce its closure.
