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1、Three university students in Santiago Chilehave developed a plant powered device,to charge their mobiephone.The three engineering students got the idea for the advice while sitting in their school s courtyard.Their invention is a small biological circuitthey called e-care ,it captures the energy pla

2、nts produce during photosynthesis.A plant uses only a small part of the energy produced by their process,therest goes into the soil, “e-carS collect that energy.Thedevice spots into the ground,and then into a mobile phone.The e-carS solved two problems for the engineering student,they needed an idea

3、 for a class project.They also needed an outlet to plug in their phones.One of the student inventors,ComitRupsech,says advice changesthe energy releasedfor the plan into low level power to charge phones.Thee-carS is able to fully recharge a mobile phone in less than two hours.T mJonathen Evens.A twe

4、nty-one years old man was pulled out alive Wednesday from the big landslidein southern China.TianZeman had been buried in piles of debrisfor sixty-seven hours,sayschineseofficials.It took rescuers three hours to reach in.Tian was weak and dehydratedwhen rescue workersfound him,Chineseofficial said.H

5、e told them his name and reported that another person was buried near him,Associated Pressreported.Butmedical staff and rescueworks said the second person did not survive.Chineseofficials said more than seventy people are missingafter Sundy s landslide in Shenzhen.The landslide buried buildings unde

6、r mud and consturctiondebris.The BBC reported that at least four bodies had been recovered by Wednesday afternoon.Chineseofficial said five thousand rescuer workers were working to find missing people.Doctors said that Tian,a migrant workerfrom Chongqing,suffered many broken bones and other injuries

7、.They said his conditionimproved after three hours of surgery.The landslide occurredwhen a man-made mountain of earth and construction waste collapsed following heavy rains.The Chinese government said it is investigatingthe disaster.Government controlled news media reported the District Governmentne

8、ar the landslide site had reported safety concerns months before Sund ay; disaster. 1 m Mario Ritter.A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan killed at least 26 people and left more than40 wounded last week.The explosion occurred in the Pakistani city of Mardan. The blast took place outside the door o

9、f a government office. The office was the National Databaseand RegistrationAuthority. That office was in charge of issuing national identity cards.The attacker arrived at the office s gate on a motorbike. Thewas stopped by a security guard. He detonated an explosive vest, according to a witness. An

10、investigationinto the identity of the bomber is underway.A Pakistani official said if the bomber was not stopped at the gate, the death toll would have been higher.It is estimated that the rider was carrying up to 12 kilograms of explosives.A BBC report said about 50 people were wounded in the blast

11、. Some were injured critically. Most of those killed or injured were civilians.The attack is one of the deadliestin Pakistan since a December 2014 massacreleft 150 students and teachers dead in Peshawar, the BBC reported.A faction of the Pakistani Taliban said it carried out the attack. In a stateme

12、nt sent to VOA, the group said it targeted the office because it is part of Pakistan -terrorism was.Bntia spokesman for the mainstream Taliban in Pakistan said the Taliban had nothing to do with the bombingin Mardan.Im Jonathan Evans.Authorities say everyone has been evacuated from a luxury hotel in

13、 Dubai that was still burning early Friday.The citys police chief saysall residents were out of the 63-story hotel, known as The Address.The hotel had been packed with people celebratingNew Years Eve when fire broke out at about 9:30 p.m. At least 14 people were injured.The hotel stands across from

14、the worlds tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa. The Burj Khalifa is more than 800 meters tall. It is the center of spectacularfireworks along the Dubai waterfront for New Years. The fireworks went on as planned.Flames quickly moved through more than 20 stories of the hotel. It could be seen for kil

15、ometers in all directions.Within 30 minutes, flames raced the top of the hotel tower, and the sky was full of thick black smoke. Burning pieces of the hotel fell to the ground from the tower.Witnessessaid tens of thousands of people were crowded into the downtown area near the blazing hotel and the

16、BurjKhalifa.Authorities in the United Arab Emirates said earlier Thursday that thousands of security personnel were on duty because of the New Years events.ImKathleen Struck.The government in China plans to end its one-child per family policy and instead let families have two children.The plan was a

17、nnounced Thursday after high-level political meetings in Beijing. The official Xinhua news agency says the countrys top legislature must approve the proposal before it becomes law.A Chinese Communist Party statement gavea number of reasons for the changein policy. The statement said the change is me

18、ant to balance population development. It said the move also attempts to stop a declining birth rate and strengthen the countrys work force.China,the worlds most populous country,launched the one-child policy in 1980. But the government permitted only a small number of couples to have two children.

19、For example, some rural families were given approval to have two children.A total of 19 rural provinces have a partial two-child policy. That policy states if the first-born is a girl, a second child is permitted.In 2013, the Chinesegovernment gave other couples a chance to have two children. Famili

20、es could have two if one parent was an only child.A teacher and population expert, Jiang Quanbao, explained how Chinese families will react to the policy.Too many young people in the cities are probably no longer interested in having a second child, he said. People in rural farming villages may be m

21、ore interested. But again, someof them are already allowed to have two children.At the end of 2014, China had a population of 1.37 billion people. A total of 800 million of them are employed. But that job market population is expected to drop by 2050. With the two-child policy, an increasein births

22、will easethe laborshortage, starting in 20 years. Im Anna Matteo.Russia and the United States say world powers are meeting NewYork on Friday to discuss the Syrian crisis and pass a resolution at the UNendorsing the peace process. RussianForeign Minister SergeiLavrov promisedthe two sides would conti

23、nue to work on contentious issues,but his UScounterpart John Kerry said some progress had already been made. World newsfrom the BBC.The authorities in Los Angeles have defended their decision to close all publicschools for the day becauseof a suspectedsecurity threat. A similar threat was received i

24、n New York where the authority said it was not credible, the cityspolice chief for the Los Angeles closure a significant overreaction. Peter Bowes reports. Officials say they decided to close down the entire public school system out of what they called an abundance of caution after theyve received a

25、 threat in an email. The authority said they would search every school in the district to make sure they were safe for pupils to return. As that got underway,New York City officials reviewed they had received the same threat, but quickly dismissed it. A member of the House Select Committee on intell

26、igence has since said the threat is believed to be a hoax.Thailand s PriMinister, PrayutChanocha, has ordered air transport officials toimprove flight safety because of international criticism.On Tuesday, the United Stateslowered its rating of Thailand s air safety. That move could hurt the Thai tou

27、rismindustry.TheU.S.FederaAviation Administration moved Thailand from a categoryone rating to category two. The FAA did not provide details on its decision. It saidofficials found Thailand civil aviation administration lacking in one or morecritical areas. This could include technical expertise, tra

28、ining processes and inspectionsystems.The U.S. decision follows earlier criticism. In March, the International Civilafter the organizationAviation Organization reported concerns about Thailand aviation safety.Soons report, South Korea, Japan and China limited Thaiairline operations in their airspace

29、. Reports say some of those restrictions have been easedsince.Thailandnats)nal carrier, Thai Airways International, said the FAAdecision would have no immediate effect. Some experts disagree. They have expressedconcerns about the effect on Thailand crstical tourism industry.ThaiAirways President,Cha

30、rampornJotikasthiraspoke with VOA earlier this year. Henoted that the airline no longer flies directly to the United States. He told VOA he is more concerned about the judgement of European air officials.A critical report from them would affect Thai flights to all European destinations.The European

31、Aviation Safety Agency is to releaseresults of its investigation on December 15.I rCatyWeaver.The United States ismarking the 14th anniversaryof the Septemberllth terrorist attacks. U.S. officials and many other Americans attended observancesFriday to remember those killed and their loved ones.Nearl

32、y 3,000 people died on September 11,2001 when hijackers used four passenger airplanes to carry out suicide attacks in the United States. In addition to the victims, the 19 hijackers also were killed. Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and his group claimed responsibility for the attacks. U.S. forces ki

33、lled him in a surprise raid on his hiding place in Pakistan four years ago.Friday morning, President Barack Obama, his wife and White House workers observed a public moment of silence in Washington. They gathered on the White House grounds at 8:46. That was the exact time when a hijacked airplane st

34、ruck the World Trade Center.In New York, families of the victims gathered for a ringing of bells and reading of the names of those killed in the terrorist attacks. Moments of silence were held at 8:46 and 9:03 in the morning, when a second hijacked plane also hit the World Trade Center.Near Washingt

35、on, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and other officials attended an observance at the Pentagon, the home of the Defense Department. They joined in remembering those killed when a hijacked airplane hit the Pentagon, killing 184 people.Earlier Friday, a large American flag was hung down the side of

36、the Pentagon, where the passenger jet hit.There also was a moment of silenceat 10:03 a.m. That was the time when a fourth hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania. All 44 people on the plane were killed. Many Americans believe the hijackers had planned to attack a target in the nation scapital

37、.The fourth plane came down in a field in the rural community of Shanksville.Today, a new visitors center there tells the story of the 9/11 attacks. The Flight 93 National Memorial was setup to recognize the passengers and crewmembewsho attacked the hijackers.StephenClark is with the U.S. National P

38、ark Service. It operates the visitors center and surrounding grounds. It just amazes me that this aircraft was but 18 minutes away from hitting Washington, D.C. Thfield was quiet on Friday, very different from the situation 14 years ago.Gordon Felt s brother Edward was one of the passengerson United

39、 Airlines Flight 93 on September 11,2001.It is surreal at times. Early on, it became very evident to us very quickly that our loved ones, the events surrounding their deaths, had historical significance to our country. The last 35 minutes of Edward Felt s life,I m George Grow.on the plane, are expla

40、ined at the new visitors center. Relatives hope visitors to the memorial will understand the full effect of the actions of their loved ones.They ll get a sense of who those 40 heroes were, as well as what their collective actions did to help save the Capitol building that morning.NASA, the U.S. agen

41、cy that explores outer space,calls this image Psychedelic Pluto. Pluto is the furthest planet in our solar system.The word psychedelic means bright, edgy colors, and Pluto looks pretty wild in this image. The New Horizonsspacecraftflew by Pluto and sent pictures back to Earth. NASAs New Horizon scientists manipulated this image o