12-06-12 A fourth-grade teacher was giving her pupils a lesson on logic. Here is the situation, she said. A man is standing up in a boat in the middle of a river, fishing. He loses his balance, falls in, and begins splashing and yelling for help. His wife he...

12-05-09 Conservationists working in Cameroon's Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary have collected the first camera trap video footage of the Cross River gorilla. With fewer than 250 individuals remaining, Cross River gorillas are the world's rarest gorilla and a noto...

12-03-27 Hello! My name is Drizzle. I am a tiny water drop. Whew! The sun is heating me up! I am getting smaller and smaller. Oh! I am going up! Up! Up! Into a cloud! Whee! Look at them. They look just like me. It is really cool up here. I like this place. H...

11-11-29 Tang Priest and his three disciples traveled westward. One night, they arrived at the Tongtian River, which was 800 kilometers wide with torrential（汹涌的） waters. They had to put up for the night in a nearby village because they had no way to cro...

11-11-27 At least three people have died and 17 others have been injured after a bridge collapsed in Borneo, Indonesia. 印度尼西亚婆罗洲一座桥梁坍塌，至少3人死亡、17人受伤。 The bridge was reported to be the longest in Borneo A bus, cars and motorcycles plun...

11-11-16 River Crossing Brian Henry There, where stones populate the underneath, splay（张开，展开） rain as it blends stops being rain, raises the river, water into water, stone into soil, too slick to stand or walk, too wide to freeze or span, to cross you...

11-09-22 The teacher told the class the story of a man who swam a river three times before breakfast. Johnny laughed. Do you doubt that a good swimmer could do that? asked the teacher. No, sir, answered Johnny, but I wonder why he did not swim it four times...

11-09-15 Liu Bei captured an excellent horse in a battle. When Liu Biao marveled at the steed（战马，骏马） , Liu Bei gave it to him as a gift. Under Liu Biao, there was a horse expert who said, This horse, though excellent, tends to harm its owner; you'd be...

11-09-02 This is a story from Kingdoms. After suppressing the separatist（分离主义的） forces in the north and taking control of the court, Cao Cao led his 830,000-strong army to the north bank of the Yangtze River, aiming to destroy Sun Quan and Liu Bei who...

11-08-01 A pleasure boat has sunk on the Moscow River in Russia's capital, drowning nine people, officials say. 俄罗斯官员称，莫斯科河上一艘游艇沉没，9人溺水身亡。 The accident took place close to the city's Luzhniki sports stadium Seven of the 16 on board w...